Bestsellers
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back....
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Judas Goat
- Poems
- By: Gabrielle Bates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships....
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Unforgettable Images…and more
- By EB on 02-04-23
By: Gabrielle Bates
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Ashley on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back....
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Judas Goat
- Poems
- By: Gabrielle Bates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships....
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Unforgettable Images…and more
- By EB on 02-04-23
By: Gabrielle Bates
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Ashley on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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Praising the Paradox
- By: Tina Schumann
- Narrated by: Tina Schumann
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This full collection of 56 poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to face the transient nature of life was named a finalist in the National Poetry Series, The New Issues Poetry Prize, The Four Way Books Intro Prize....
By: Tina Schumann
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem....
By: Hala Alyan
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Danger on Peaks
- By: Gary Snyder
- Narrated by: Gary Snyder
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Perhaps Snyder most personal, autobiographical collection, the audio begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima....
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Gary Snyder in a Lifetime, Unforgettable
- By Susie on 05-05-16
By: Gary Snyder
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By heather on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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The Poetry of Strangers
- What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter
- By: Brian Sonia-Wallace
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems....
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A must listen to for poetry lovers.
- By Lloyd Richardson on 07-01-20
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Never Catch Me
- By: Darius Simpson
- Narrated by: Darius Simpson
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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Darius Simpson’s debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against and upon, Black bodies, and yet, still, each poem is saturated in revolution and hope....
By: Darius Simpson
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Surge
- By: Jay Bernard
- Narrated by: Jay Bernard
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Jay Bernard’s powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive, tracing a line between two significant events in recent British history: the New Cross Massacre of 1981 in which 13 young black people were killed in a house fire - and the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017....
By: Jay Bernard
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What I Learned from the Trees
- By: L. E. Bowman
- Narrated by: L. E. Bowman
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities....
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Not even sure how I came across this title!
- By victoria on 06-18-23
By: L. E. Bowman
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You and Yours
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A beloved, best-selling American poet with an international reputation celebrates the sacred in all things....
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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woke up no light
- poems
- By: Leila Mottley
- Narrated by: Leila Mottley
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California.
By: Leila Mottley
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Andy Harrington, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems that describe life - and death - in a small town. Each poem is a monologue delivered by a resident of Spoon River, describing events in their lives, and the circumstances that led to their occasionally untimely end....
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Fast Speaking Woman
- Chants & Essays
- By: Anne Waldman
- Narrated by: Anne Waldman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this 20th-anniversary expanded edition to add 20 poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry....
By: Anne Waldman
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New American Best Friend
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 54 mins
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One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes....
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- By Keaira on 07-29-19
By: Olivia Gatwood
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Golden Ax
- Penguin Poets
- By: Rio Cortez
- Narrated by: Rio Cortez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West....
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Absolutely wonderful!
- By ML on 09-27-22
By: Rio Cortez
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A People's History of Chicago
- By: Kevin Coval
- Narrated by: Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold....
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Better in Print
- By Katie Rosewicz on 10-04-22
By: Kevin Coval
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A Country of Strangers
- New and Selected Poems
- By: D. Nurkse
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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D. Nurkse’s immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII....
By: D. Nurkse
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Light for the World to See
- A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events....
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Powerful
- By SH on 11-04-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Mezzanine
- Poems
- By: Zoe Hitzig
- Narrated by: Zoe Hitzig
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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In her striking collection of poems, Zoë Hitzig investigates how we seek certitude, power, and domination over the natural world and one another. Hitzig brings a scientific rigor to her poetry, as well as a raucous energy....
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Zoe is feisty but fascinating.
- By Dan Garon on 06-05-22
By: Zoe Hitzig
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Vinegar Hill
- Poems
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events....
By: Colm Tóibín
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Text Messages
- Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling
- By: Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman
- Narrated by: Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman....
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Machete
- Poems
- By: Tomás Q. Morín
- Narrated by: Tomás Q. Morín
- Length: 59 mins
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This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts....
By: Tomás Q. Morín
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Campos de Castilla [Fields of Castile]
- By: Antonio Machado
- Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX....
By: Antonio Machado
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Бояриня
- By: Леся Українка
- Narrated by: Меланія
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Леся Українка (Лариса Петрівна Косач) — українська письменниця, перекладач, культурний діяч. Писала у жанрі поезії, лірики, епосу, драми, прозі...
By: Леся Українка
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Birthright
- By: George Abraham
- Narrated by: George Abraham
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing....
By: George Abraham
New releases
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woke up no light
- poems
- By: Leila Mottley
- Narrated by: Leila Mottley
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting.
By: Leila Mottley
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Through Old Eyes
- Poems by Uncle Wes Marne
- By: Uncle Wes Marne
- Narrated by: Uncle Wes Marne
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Published to commemorate the author’s 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people. Sometimes wistful, melancholic, poignant, at times the author’s wry sense of fun and humour shines through. When he arrived in Sydney in the 1960s, Bigambul man, Uncle Wes, was not allowed to tell his stories at schools.
By: Uncle Wes Marne
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Bizarrest Blunts
- By: Jamie Aldridge
- Narrated by: Jamie Nichole Aldridge
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Bizarrest Blunts is the final installment of Jamie Nichole’s poetry trilogy centered on uninhibited self-expression. There will be no way down from here. Listeners will find bizarre thinking at the highest of levels when listening to of Bizarrest Blunts. These pieces of poetry sizzle with risk taking.
By: Jamie Aldridge
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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A Year of Last Things
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is. Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived here since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a “mongrel,” someone born out of diverse cultures.
By: Michael Ondaatje
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed.
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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woke up no light
- poems
- By: Leila Mottley
- Narrated by: Leila Mottley
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting.
By: Leila Mottley
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Through Old Eyes
- Poems by Uncle Wes Marne
- By: Uncle Wes Marne
- Narrated by: Uncle Wes Marne
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Published to commemorate the author’s 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people. Sometimes wistful, melancholic, poignant, at times the author’s wry sense of fun and humour shines through. When he arrived in Sydney in the 1960s, Bigambul man, Uncle Wes, was not allowed to tell his stories at schools.
By: Uncle Wes Marne
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Bizarrest Blunts
- By: Jamie Aldridge
- Narrated by: Jamie Nichole Aldridge
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Bizarrest Blunts is the final installment of Jamie Nichole’s poetry trilogy centered on uninhibited self-expression. There will be no way down from here. Listeners will find bizarre thinking at the highest of levels when listening to of Bizarrest Blunts. These pieces of poetry sizzle with risk taking.
By: Jamie Aldridge
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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A Year of Last Things
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is. Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived here since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a “mongrel,” someone born out of diverse cultures.
By: Michael Ondaatje
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed.
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived here since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world—describing himself as a “mongrel,” someone born out of diverse cultures. Here, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed, he moves back and forth in time.
By: Michael Ondaatje
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Wild Flames
- Carbon Climate
- By: Mike Blake
- Narrated by: Mike Blake
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Wild Flames was written as a poem about the destruction of the planet by the recent wildfires in particular the devastation of the island of Maui.
By: Mike Blake
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form—small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.
By: Hala Alyan
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Rio Grande’s Last Race and Other Verses
- By: A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses was Paterson's second collection of poems and was published in 1902. Among the 46 poems are some of Paterson's best-known pieces of verse, including "Rio Grande's Last Race" and "Mulga Bill's Bicycle"
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Morvoren
- The Poetry of Sea Swimming
- By: Ella Walsworth-Bell, Abigail Ottley, Hannah Temme, and others
- Narrated by: Ella Walsworth-Bell, Kate Barden, Abigail Ottley, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Ella Walsworth-Bell and her co-authors have created thirty-two poems exploring the magic and beauty of sea swimming in Cornwall. Whether you dip a toe, or dive right in; stroll the shoreline, or race through the surf; relax on soft sand, or simply consider the sea temperature from afar… immersed in Morvoren, you will find yourself reflected here.
By: Ella Walsworth-Bell, and others
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Into Light: Volume Three
- By: M. D. Friedman
- Narrated by: M. D. Friedman
- Length: 49 mins
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The last 22 poems from M. D. Friedman's INTO LIGHT poetry book. Volume Three includes both of my popular "harmonica poems" as well as some of my best meditative poems, including "Wonder Moment," with a newly composed indigenous flute accompaniment.
By: M. D. Friedman