Poetry audiobooks

Bruto minore

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Sergio Baldelli

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

 Poi che divelta, nella tracia polve giacque, ruina immensa, l’italica virtute, onde alle valli d’Esperia verde e al tiberino lido il calpestio de’ barbari cavalli prepara il fato, e dalle selve ignude, cui l’Orsa algida preme, a spezzar le romane inclite mura chiama i gotici brandi; sudato, e molle di fraterno sangue, Bruto per l’atra notte in... Read more

Ad Angelo Mai

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Sergio Baldelli

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Italo ardito, a che giammai non posi di svegliar dalle tombe i nostri padri? ed a parlar gli meni a questo secol morto, al quale incombe tanta nebbia di tedio? E come or vieni sí forte a’ nostri orecchi e sí frequente, voce antica de’ nostri, muta sí lunga etade? Read more

A un vincitore nel pallone

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Sergio Baldelli

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Di gloria il viso e la gioconda voce, garzon bennato, apprendi, e quanto al femminile ozio sovrasti la sudata virtude. Attendi, attendi, magnanimo campion (s’alla veloce piena degli anni il tuo valor contrasti la spoglia di tuo nome), attendi e il core movi ad alto desio. Te l’echeggiante arena e il circo, e te fremendo appella ai fatti illustri... Read more

Nelle nozze della sorella Paolina

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Sergio Baldelli

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

 Poi che, del patrio nido i silenzi lasciando e le beate larve e l’antico error, celeste dono ch’abbella agli occhi tuoi quest’ermo lido, te nella polve della vita e il suono tragge il destin; l’obbrobriosa etate, che il duro cielo a noi prescrisse, impara, sorella mia, che in gravi e luttuosi tempi l’infelice famiglia all’infelice Italia... Read more

Sopra il monumento di Dante che si preparava in Firenze

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Sergio Baldelli

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Perché le nostre genti Pace sotto le bianche ali raccolga, non fien da’ lacci sciolte dell’antico sopor l’itale menti s’ai patrii esempi della prisca etade questa terra fatal non si rivolga. Read more

Iggy Horse

By: author

Narrated by: Michael Earl Craig

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model,... Read more

The Milk Job

By: Samuel Kilroy

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Milk Job is a contemporary poetic retelling of the biblical Book of Job, inspired by the author’s own struggle to cope with personal tragedy and suffering – a struggle that is shared by all of humanity.
Using the literary device of the allegory and following the tradition of classical narrative poetry, Samuel Kilroy tells the tale of a... Read more

Lifescapes

By: Thomas Nelson

Narrated by: Ann Wroe

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"A lyrical, radiant memoir." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewAnn Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after... Read more

Wake the Others

By: Willy Palomo

Narrated by: Willy Palomo

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Half-memoir, half-biography, Wake The Others wrestles with the legacy of the Salvadoran Civil War. Blending lyric and narrative, Palomo traces his mother’s childhood, war experiences, family separation, migration, and its aftermath. Political without sacrificing craft, confessional without navel-gazing, this debut collection of poetry guides... Read more

More Translations From The Chinese

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

There have been many translators of Chinese literature and poetry over time, but Arthur Waley stands out as one of the best known and most loved. This is perhaps because he had an attribute that most others lacked, which is his poetic abilities. Waley was as much a poet himself as a translator, and while his scholarly erudition was matched by a... Read more

Mary Oliver

By: Mike Blake

Narrated by: Mike Blake

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

MARY OLIVER ~ Naturale.
A Poem about the acclaimed U.S. Poet Mary Oliver.
She represented all things bright and beautiful in Nature, and encompassed the less bright in her
accomplished Poems.
This poem doesn't describe her life, rather her poetry vision with snippets of her famous poems intertwined.
***** Please leave your Review/feedback, Not just... Read more

The 1 & The 0

By: Mike Blake

Narrated by: Mike Blake

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The One (1) and the Zero (0). Binary:
About the intrinsic use of computer code down to Binary base level.
They're all around us now, computers. In our heads with social media, and the internet is now part of our dna (so to speak).
All fed by the 1's & the 0's !
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GRC3428
*MORE POEMS by the... Read more

Poems From The Chinese

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

These are called ''' Poems from the Chinese"" and we have Mr. Waley's assurance that there are in existence Oriental originals.
But if it be so (and, of course it is) then we have here a literary miracle. It is a platitude that translation of poetry is either bad verse or bad translation. But Mr. Waley, translating not merely from one language... Read more

Sins Of Love

By: Fay Leta Crawford

Narrated by: Fay Leta Crawford

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sins of Love is a collection of poems written solely by myself. Sins of Love is my interpretation of love and heartbreak in correlation with the stages of death and dying. I have taken my experiences and the experiences of others and categorized them into five stages. This book is a walk through the side of love most people don’t want to talk... Read more

Poems for Every Season

By: Enid Blyton

Narrated by: Heather Long

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This gorgeous collection of nature poems is an exciting celebration of the natural world and its wonders from Enid Blyton, the world's best-loved storyteller.

From birds in May and August flowers to green trees in November and summer seaside walks, explore the enchanting worlds of animals, birds, trees and plants throughout the year in verse.

This... Read more

The Forerunner & The Madman

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Most famously known for his book The Prophet, the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, who has been called "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century."
Contained herein are two lesser known works. The Madman was the first book Kahlil published in English, and it's success was... Read more

Untethered Love

By: Bobbie Isabel

Narrated by: Bobbie Isabel

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What types of love can you feel when you're free from everything that binds you? In this poetry collection, Bobbie Isabel shares poems that speak to various types of love, such as love of a child and self love in addition to romantic and erotic love. Read more

Darkling

By: Catherine Hyde

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Prize-winning poet and artist Catherine Hyde celebrates the magic of the night from dusk till dawn as she follows the owl’s journey in a gorgeous gift book of full colour paintings.

I turn
to the old orchard
where she hunts:
a ghost glimmering
sweet heart of the moon.
Swooping between trees,
a beating clock of claw and feather,
hush winged, in half... Read more

The Poet Li Po

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literature, Arthur Waley.
Also known as Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, 701–762), also pronounced as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (Chinese: 太白), was a Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own time to the present as one of the greatest and most important poets of the... Read more

The Hot Glue Gun Chronicles

By: Dr. Ashley Crooks-Allen

Narrated by: Dr. Ashley Crooks-Allen & Ashlee Haze

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hot Glue Gun Chronicles is a winner of the 2023 Philosophy Media Group Publishing Competiton and the debut manuscript from poet & scholar Ashley Crooks-Allen. This collection of poetry explores themes of identity, healing, and belonging through the lens of an Afro-Latinx Queer identifying poet and scholar.“The Hot Glue Gun Chronicles is... Read more

Mishkât Al-Anwar (The Niche For Lights)

By: Al- Ghazzali & WHT Gairdner

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic work of Sufi mystical thinking from 1100CE, available in audiobook for the first time. It is also known as A Niche of Lamps.
In the middle ages, Sufi scholars reconciled rationality and faith, both of which were ascendant in the empires of the time. This is one of the great philosophical and theological works from that period, and... Read more

170 Chinese Poems

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese... Read more

ألوان الحنين - Abridged

By: أنيس رزوق

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ألوان حنين مجموعة نثرية للشاعر الدكتور أنيس رزوق يبث من خلالها حنينه للوطن، الأم، والحبيبة، ويختبر من خلالها تجربته الشعرية في رحلة إلى اللغة، حيث تتداعى غنائيته صادحة بالمؤلوف وباللامألوف. وعندما نقرأ المجموعة سنكتشف مباشرة أن الكلمات هي نجوى للكاتب، وفي خارطة الزمن لم تكن مجرد إنتاج أدبي ليوضع في كتاب، بل هي تعابير تجولت في أزمان الماضي، وكتبت... Read more

Bringing the Shovel Down

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The... Read more