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    At Blackwater Pond

    Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Narrated by Mary Oliver ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems, spanning her career from Dream Work through New and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Many Miles

    Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Narrated by Mary Oliver ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her classic nature writing to her verses for her mischievous bichon, Percy, to her ever-deepening spiritual ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    And Still I Rise

    A Book of Poems

    by Maya Angelou ...
    Narrated by Maya Angelou ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling lies.I say,It’s in the reach of my arms,The span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl o... ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Collected Poems

    Including late and uncollected work

    by Anthony Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours

    In his centenary year, this volume of the Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate’s poems celebrates the indispensable artistry of a writer who faced the history of his era with a “clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness” (NYTBR) and was hailed in his day as “the best poet writing in English” (Joseph Brodsky).This volume brings together for the first time all of the poems that appeared in ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Whale Day

    by Billy Collins ...
    Narrated by Billy Collins ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    ‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ Nick LairdThese are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient d... ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Poetry Of HP Lovecraft, The

    by H. P. Lovecraft ...
    Narrated by John Michael MacDonald ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    There are rather few masters of horror writing out of the many who write horror. HP Lovecraft has achieved fame because his work is of a standard of excellence that few if any can rival. Here we concentrate on his poems that show a different side of his nature at times but allow him to use his macabre tastes to enrich his lines and ideas with the shiver of the night. Born in 1890 in Providence, ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Notes from 1619: A Poetic 400-Year Reflection

    by Horace Mungin, Marjory Wentworth ...
    Narrated by Matt Jones ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    Horace Mungin’s brave attempt to fight against the multiple manifestations of injustice imposed by the conscious erasure of African American history is in keeping with the best of contemporary African American literature. Mungin deftly imagines the horrors of the Middle Passage, taking us back to the Cape Coast of Africa and telling the story of Khadija, “born to a time of trouble,” who was ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Not Enough Time

    My Poetry Book

    by Etanie Samuels ...
    Narrated by Etanie Samuels ...

    Unabridged

    20 min

    Not Enough Time is written in the form of a mini bio in a poetry form. Each chapter is designed with life, purpose, motivation, and reality. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Poetic Expressions My Love to the World

    by bernice ...
    Narrated by Barry Thomas ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Inspirational poetry by bernice willis ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    You and Yours

    by Naomi Shihab Nye ...
    Narrated by Naomi Shihab Nye ...
    series American Poets Continuum

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Nye's last BOA collections, Red Suitcase, and, Fuel, have each sold over 12,000 copies. They are best-selling back titles. Red Suitcase is in its 5th printing. Fuel is in its 4th printing. This is her first collection since Fuel in 1998, so her many fans will be eager to read her new poems. ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Poet's Guide to Life

    The Wisdom of Rilke

    Narrated by Ethan Hawke ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 6 min

    “You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.”–RAINER MARIA RILKEIn this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight,the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence.The result is a profound ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    all of it is you.

    poetry

    by Nico Tortorella ...
    Narrated by Nico Tortorella ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 18 min

    A debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring “all of it,” from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe.Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate, one colored with love, wonder, and endless curiosity. But it is also more than just words on a page – it is a sensuous ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Somebody Else Sold the World

    by Adrian Matejka ...
    Narrated by Adrian Matejka ...
    series Penguin Poets

    Unabridged

    45 min

    A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer PrizeThe poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the ways we exist in an uncontrollable world: in love and its aftermaths, in families that divide themselves, in protest-filled streets, in isolation as ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Here In Harlem

    Poems in Many Voices

    by Walter Dean Myers ...
    Narrated by Muhammad Cunningham, Michael Early, Arthur French, Charles Turner, Dion Graham, Various ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Fifty-four poems, all in different voices, written by one outstanding author. Residents of a fictional Harlem community, from motorman to teacher, from party girl to live-in maid, to jazz artist, a deacon, students, veterans and more- all embodied by thirteen remarkable narrators.Original musical recordings from the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Thelonious Monk. Each distinctive memory, ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    As I Ascend

    Poems by Sina Hilbert

    by Sina Hilbert ...
    Narrated by Deanna Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    24 min

    As I Ascend is an unforgettable collection of poems about love, race, and all things in between from Sina Hilbert in her book debut.In As I Ascend, Sina not only gives readers an intimate, unfiltered look into her own experiences with romantic love and heartbreak; she also explores self-love and love for her culture – Black culture. She examines the lunacy of what it means to be Black in America ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard

    by Beth May ...
    Narrated by Beth May ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    Diary entries, medical records, book reports, phone calls, dates (the romantic kind), dreams, index cards, passive aggressive post-it notes, stories, emails to professors, dates (the month/day kind), worries, and resumes that never led to job interviews... ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    If Men, Then

    Poems

    by Eliza Griswold ...
    Narrated by Eliza Griswold ...

    Unabridged

    47 min

    A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    while they sleep (under the bed is another country)

    by Raquel Salas Rivera ...
    Narrated by Raquel Salas Rivera ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    while they sleep (under the bed is another country) refuses to sweep up the shards of Hurricane María’s aftermath. Written in dialogic fragments and intersped with prose poems reflecting on the lasting impact of colonial trauma, it is arranged around the two different discourses. The bed on which America sleeps, and which America has made, is built on the fear that the nations it has oppressed ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Poetry of America, The

    by William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar ...
    Narrated by Lorelei King, William Hootkins, Richard Mitchley, William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    AMERICA – The Poetry Of – An Introduction. Poetry can sometimes be elusive, the real meaning layered beneath another. In this volume American Poets give voice to their Nation, their hopes and aspirations. Whitman, Emerson and Dickinson are joined by Poe, Holmes, Dunbar and others to pleasure our ears and minds with a rambling stroll through their works. It doesn’t define America but it captures ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Literal Life Lessons

    by Sandra Nelms-Ludwig ...
    Narrated by Sandra Nelms-Ludwig, Linda B Marshall, Ginia Erika Ludwig ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 38 min

    Literal Life Lessons is a collection of poems capturing the tender, hauntingly human frailties of the poet and the persons she has observed over the years. The poems draw the reader into real life, familiar experiences and into thought-provoking realizations. Nothing is spared in depicting the underbelly and vulnerabilities of humanity. Author's Bio Mother, veteran, former interpretative national ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Ice Palace, The

    Author of the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald writes through the eyes of an independent young woman and the consequences of her romantic choices.

    by F Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained.His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Remembranzas Añejas

    Cuando el Pasado nos Acecha con su Poesía

    by Carlos Estrada Monteagudo ...
    Narrated by Sergio Crispín ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    ¿Idolatraste a quien jamás te amó o acaso se dejó adorar tu frío corazón de piedra?¿Te sedujo la hermosura de su adolescencia o lo imposible de un amor prohibido?¿Has fantaseado al recordar aquella ocasión en que tuviste el mejor sexo de tu vida?Si la voz de tu pasado te respondió afirmativamente deberías escuchar estos poemas.La voz que narra este poemario transformado en... ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    We Inherit What the Fires Left

    Poems

    by William Evans ...
    Narrated by William Evans ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 45 min

    William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today.In We Inherit What the Fires Left, award-winning ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Nose, The

    Gogol uses the absurd in expert form to show us the problems with society, status, class and their places in the world around us.

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Narrated by Eliott Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore.His father wrote poetry and plays which the young Gogol helped stage at his uncle’s home theatre. This helped ignite in him a love of literature ... Read more

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