The Poetry category has 514 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 598 ratings. The most-rated is Unlearn.
The Merseyside Poems
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The industrial past. Stories of real people. Arts and culture. History and contemporary life. Merseyside provides almost an embarrassment of riches enough to inspire any poet! Dean Fraser sought for these poetic tales to do justice to the uniqueness of Merseyside and all the while during the writing of this collection his sense of humour was never too far away (he feels it must be imprinted within the DNA of the region!) The poet came to appreciate and genuinely love Merseyside as he wrote this collection during the Covid-19 lockdown of spring 2020. Inspired by places he had visited over the years and tales of people encountered along the way. Some of these are people he actually met; others are those who left their mark on history now brought to life once more through the power of words.
©2020 Dean Fraser (P)2021 Dean Fraser
Homeless in My Heart
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Following in the footsteps of A Glass Half Full, Lone Wolf and When Jack Sued Jill, Homeless In My Heart - Felix Dennis's long-awaited new collection of verse - is 'the story of a fool whose life was saved by poetry'. Felix Dennis' life has been a long series of unlikely events: incarceration by the British government in 1971 following the longest conspiracy trial in British history; recording a chart single with John Lennon; co-authoring Muhammad Ali's first biography; becoming one of the richest individuals in Britain; launching one of the most successful media brands in the world; falling into crack cocaine addiction; beginning the task of planting a huge native broad-leaf forest in the Heart of England; salvaging the wreckage of a life dedicated to hedonism; and, lastly, and most surprisingly of all, discovering that he could write the kind of poetry that people wanted to read and to hear. Now, with the publication of Homeless in My Heart, Felix Dennis' extraordinary talents have come to fruition - from ironic tales of darkness and savagery to hymns of praise for the glories of nature. Homeless in My Heart fulfils the promise predicted by the author and critic Tom Wolfe, who has called Dennis 'a 21st-century Kipling [whose poetry] rollicks and rolls with rhyme, meter, and melody'.
©2008 Felix Dennis (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
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A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a “magician and a master” (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.
©2019 Joy Harjo (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
The Carrying
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“Ada Limón’s new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty.” (NPR) From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying - her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious and brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility - “What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?” - and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then, / I’ll take it,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” Praise for The Carrying “Ada Limón is one of the country’s finest poets.” (Shelf Awareness) “The Carrying is one of Ada Limón’s best. Even in poems about racism, misogyny, violence, and the darkness that often accompanies life, Limón’s resiliency shines through.” (Bitch Media) “The Carrying is dazzling, precise, transformative and deeply humane. Ada Limón is an American treasure.” (Jami Attenberg) “In these poems, joy and longing and grief sing with a music that - regardless of what I am burdened or blessed to carry - makes me want to live passionately and fully in the difficult world. The Carrying is a gift.” (Natasha Trethewey)
©2018 Milkweed Editions (P)2018 Milkweed Editions
Validate Me
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From the best-selling author of She Must Be Mad comes the second book of poetry and prose from Charly Cox. What is love? Baby don’t hurt me...but please like my Instagram post. Hello, my name is Charly and I am code-dependent, so would you please, please just validate me? From the best-selling author of She Must Be Mad, comes Charly Cox’s second collection of poetry and prose. This is an account of a life lived online. Swiping for approval. Scrolling for gratification. Searching for connection. From the glow of a screen in the middle of the night, to the harsh glare of the hospital waiting room, Validate Me, is a raw and honest look at the highs and the lows of a digital life. The new voice of a generation, Charly’s words have the power to make us all feel less alone.
©2019 Charly Cox (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Olio Live
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In Olio Live - a very special one-night performance recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theater in February, 2019 - poet Tyehimba Jess introduces listeners to his 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Olio. A stellar cast of actors, accompanied by pianist Jeremy Gill, performs a selection of poems from the collection, all of which reinterpret the lived experience of real historical figures. You’ll meet William "Blind" Boone, who testifies to Scott Joplin’s greatness at a time when "Alexander’s Ragtime Band" by Irving Berlin used uncredited sections of Joplin’s work; Sissieretta Jones, an operatic star who elevates what a "revue" show could be; and other African American musical stars of the early 20th century. Despite the Emancipation of African Americans and the rise of Tin Pan Alley, these gifted composers and musicians continued to experience appropriation of their work and, often, lack of remuneration. In this context, the word "olio" also means a hodgepodge, or a miscellaneous collection of literary or musical selections; taken as a whole, the triumphant performances of Olio Live ask listeners to consider the nature of identity, performance, and ever-present history. Tyehimba Jess and Yahdon Israel immortalize and embody a long tradition of African American "citizenship through musicianship" in this timeless live audio. Cover art photo by Rog and Bee Walker
©2016 For poems: Tyehimba Jess (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.
Wooden Lions
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Wooden Lions is the ultimate animal-lovers’ audiobook, with each poem in this amazing collection cradling the soul of a creature. Morton’s poetry winds through our connection with the animal spirit, breathlessly binding us forever in their wisdom; their endless lifting up of humankind. This is a celebration of all beasts, reminding us to cherish all those who nurture us.
©2020 Ms. Karla K. Morton (P)2021 Ms. Karla K. Morton
The Mountains Within
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Mountains Within: Poems of the Wild and experience poetry about the wild today. "As you open this book, innumerable joys overflow its confines, cascading in through your eyes and your ears and the pores of your skin. Allen Gilchrist writes under the influence of the more-than-human earth, and he has crafted a cadence all his own for singing the exuberance of mountains, spiders, sequoias, and swooping wings - a verbal music for conveying all that he inhales through his senses and alchemizes in his heart, back out again into ours." (David Abram, author of Becoming Animal) "The Mountains Within is a joy of a book. Allen Gilchrist is one of those rare souls whose life and writing radiate nature's ecstatic presence and benevolence. Each poem is a doorway inviting the reader to partake in an intimate connection with wildness." (Joseph Bharat Cornell, founder, Sharing Nature Worldwide)
©2017 Garth Gilchrist (P)2021 Garth Gilchrist
The Girl and the Goddess
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Best-selling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with an innovative novel in verse, exploring Hindu mythology and legend. Let her be a little less human, a little more divine. Give her heart armor so it doesn't break as easily as mine. Meet Paro. A girl with a strong will, a full heart, and much to learn. Born into a family reeling from the ruptures of Partition in India, we follow her as she crosses the precarious lines between childhood, teenage discovery, and realizing her adult self. In the process, Paro must confront fear, desire and the darkest parts of herself in the search for meaning and, ultimately, empowerment. Nikita Gill's vivid poetry and beautiful illustrations have captured hearts and imaginations - but in The Girl and the Goddess, she offers us her most personal and deeply felt writing to date: an intimate coming-of-age story told in linked poems that offers a look into the Hindu mythology and rich cultural influences that helped her become the woman she is today.
©2020 Nikita Gill (P)2020 Penguin Audio
El Siglo de Oro
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Poetas: Vida y Obra Introduccion Juan Boscan Garcilaso de la Vega Fray Luis de Leon Francisco de la Torre Fernando de HerraraPoemas Juan Boscan Garcilaso de la Vega Fray Luis de Leon Francisco de la Torre Fernando de Herrara
©2002 Coral Communications Group, LLC (P)2002 Coral Communications Group, LLC
A Part of Me
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I am the son of man. I am the one made of clay. I was driven by the call in my chest to see the sea. I was driven by its salt calling the salt in me. If I was melted by the sea in such a chaos of the drowned, then leave my shadow on the palm, and leave it there as old and calm as the palm tree, or as the olive tree or fig tree. Then, take the best of my tweets and turn them all in a prayer, recite it once and then again, relieve my pain, revoke the curse of son, of man for him to go back to heaven and leave alone the universe.
©2020 Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd (P)2021 Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
Brown
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James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prize-winning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection. Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings", Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History" - a song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties / minus Malcolm X, or Watts, / barely a march on Washington" - to "Money Road", a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's lynching, the poems engage place and the past and their intertwined power. These 32 taut poems and poetic sequences, including an oratorio based on Mississippi "barkeep, activist, waiter" Booker Wright that was performed at Carnegie Hall and the vibrant sonnet cycle "De La Soul Is Dead", about the days when hip-hop was growing up ("we were black then, not yet / African American"), remind us that blackness and brownness tell an ongoing story. A testament to Young's own - and our collective - experience, Brown offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time.
©2018 Kevin Young (P)2018 Random House Audio
LOVE.HER.WILD
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Ein Sommer in Rom, 231 Jahre und acht Monate nach Goethe. Mit seiner Ehrlichkeit, seinem Blick für das Wesentliche und tiefer Romantik hat sich Atticus auf seinem Instagram-Account @atticuspoetry in die Herzen hunderttausender von Menschen geschrieben, er gilt als einer der bekanntesten Instagram-Poeten. In eindringlichen Worten hält er sowohl die kleinen als auch die allergrößten Augenblicke des Lebens fest: den ersten flüchtigen Blick einer neuen Liebe in Paris, Nacktbaden in einer lauen Sommernacht, während einer nächtlichen Autofahrt laut einen Song im Radio mitsingen, ein Glas alten Whiskey trinken und dabei zusehen, wie die Sonne in der Wüste untergeht.
©2017 / 2019 Finch & Zebra - Buss & Thielen GbR / dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co. KG / Atticus Publishing / Atria Books. Übersetzung von Kilian Unger (P)2019 Finch & Zebra - Buss & Thielen GbR
Poesie d'amore
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Partecipe in eguale misura dell'estrema dolcezza orientale e di una certa crudezza di ritmi di tipo occidentale, in queste "Poesie d'amore" Hikmet mostra le due facce della sua natura, lirica ed epica, saldate in un risultato unico. Versi immortali, che riassumono nell'elemento erotico i diversi aspetti dell'attività e dell'esperienza dell'autore, poeta d'amore perché prima di tutto poeta di battaglie e di idee.
©2007 Mondadori (P)2017 Mondadori
9327 Days to Oblivion
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9327 Days to Oblivion is the debut poetry anthology from Jas James. Written across the very worst and very best times of her life, this diverse collection is a walk through the extreme, the conflicting and the downright taboo thoughts and feelings that accompany grief, loss, learning to accept yourself and finding a voice.
©2020 Jasmine James (P)2021 Jasmine James
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Rendang [English edition]
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In "Rendang", Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet generous eye, "Rendang" is a collection that engages equally with the pain and promise of self-perception. Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage, Harris shows us new ways to think about the contradictions of identity and cultural memory. He creates companions that speak to us in multiple languages; they sit next to us on the bus, walk with us through the crowd and talk to us while we're chopping shallots. They deftly ask us to consider how and what we look at, as well as what we don't look at and why. Playing eruditely with and querying structures of narrative, with his use of the long poem, images, ekphrasis, and ruptured forms, "Rendang" is a startling new take on the self, and how an identity is constructed. It is intellectual and accessible, moving and experimental, and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting.
©2020 Will Harris (P)2020 Will Harris
No Matter the Wreckage LIVE
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Following the success of her breakout poem, "B", Sarah Kay releases the LIVE recording of her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. This live recording of Sarah Kay's reading of No Matter the Wreckage, at The Wild Project in NYC, presents listeners with the new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's talent for celebrating family, love, travel, and the unlikely romance between inanimate objects ("The Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire"). Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows listeners to join her on the journey of discovering herself and the world around her. It is an honest and powerful collection.
©2014 Sarah Kay (P)2018 Hachette Audio
The Heart of the Matter
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This book of poetry entails my many phases of atmospheric adaptation. It allows me to be free and have much fun doing so. After all, life must go on and on. This is for all the beings in a world of fighting for freedom of good, creative, and loyal penmanship. The universe is one of a unique yet sometimes agitated system. I hope you enjoyed listening to this book, even if you didn't listen to this book. May God bless you, Tonya Latrice Massenburg
©2013 Tonya L. Massenburg (P)2013 Tonya L. Massenburg
Make Me Rain
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One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than 30 years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has inspired, enlightened, and dazzled readers and listeners. As sharp and outspoken as ever, this artist long hailed as a healer and a sage returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and give listeners an unfiltered look into the most private parts of herself. In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as "I Come from Athletes" and "Rainy Days" - calling out segregation and Donald Trump; as well as "Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)" and "When I Could No Longer" - her personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive home life. Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul.
©2020 Nikki Giovanni (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Dog Songs
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A New York Times best-selling collection of new and favorite poems, celebrating the dogs that have enriched the poet’s world Beloved by her fans, special to the poet’s own heart, Mary Oliver’s dog poems offer a special window into her world. Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver’s relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. These are poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver’s well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Dog Songs is a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, from an observer of extraordinary vision.
©2013 Mary Oliver (P)2014 Penguin Audio