Poetry

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of the most extraordinary - and important - texts in Western philosophy. It was written by Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885. He cast it in the form of a novel in the hope that his urgent message of the 'death of God' and the rise of the superman...

Rome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...

Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem. Inferno: Thirty-five year old Dante finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. Hope of rescue appears in the form of the venerable poet...

The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....

"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary...

Welcome to Edmund Spenser’s 1590s epic poem, The Faerie Queene. This text-faithful, line-by-line prose rendering transports modern listeners into a vast narrative tapestry.

“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles Times From the beloved, legendary poet...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Royce Pierreson, star of Line of Duty, Our Girl and The Witcher. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Alexander. Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic...

The great legacy of The Iliad is itsshattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to...

A three-time Christy Award winner, Lynn Austin crafts rousing tales of hope and redemption. All She Ever Wanted stars Kathleen Seymour, a woman who seems to have it all, though she hides a dark family secret. To her horror, everything comes crashing down when she loses her job and her daughter...

Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the...

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"....

Born out of the political turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan stands out as one of the most in influential political and philosophical texts of the 17th century....

One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece....

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for...

Much-Afraid begins her journey, crippled and disfigured, with the cry....

Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions...

Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times bestseller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy and everything in between: Love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the fate of an army, a city, and a civilization turned on the anger of one man? In *The Iliad*, Homer gives Western literature one of its first and most powerful visions of war, honor, grief, glory, and mortality. Set during the final year of...

The intensely confessional work of Japan’s most famous modernist poet, considered the Japanese Rimbaud, whose poems have inspired cultlike devotion—especially among fans of the hit anime show Bungo Stray Dogs—in a brilliant new translation, the most comprehensive in English A Penguin...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles. For nine long years, the armies of Greece have besieged the walls of Troy. But when a bitter quarrel erupts between King Agamemnon and Achilles, the greatest of all warriors, rage threatens to destroy the Greeks...

A prince of thieves discovers daring adventure, and a princess summons untameable magic in this epic romantasy saga of ancient deserts, powerful gods, and enemies-to-lovers. Zayde is a college student who keeps his family alive by robbing the rich to feed the poor, until the woman haunting his dreams appears. After discovering he is the reincarnation of Sultan Zahid, and his mystery girl Queen Bennua, Zayde embarks on a quest to save the world from darkness once more, fighting demons while recovering the memories of his forbidden roots.

A son searching for answers. Two legendary kings. The first true hope that Odysseus may still live. In Books 3 and 4 of Homer’s The Odyssey, Telemachus continues the dangerous search for news of his missing father. Guided by Athena, he arrives at Pylos and is welcomed by the aged King Nestor...

What if the universe isn’t something out there —but a living, responsive field that listens, feels, and creates with you? If time is an illusion, entangled particles don’t care about distance, you observe your reality into being, and everything is connected, then why oh why are you living your life via the outdated, old way of thinking? I set my intention, followed aligned guidance, and manifested an incredibly easy-to-follow book about how the amazing phenomena of quantum physics go hand-in-hand with what our ancestors knew —and how to easily use this knowledge to one’s advantage.

7 Walt Whitman Essential Poems brings together seven of the most memorable works by one of America's greatest poets.

Step into a world where logic loosens its grip and language begins to shimmer with delightful uncertainty. In this audio version of Lewis Carroll's classic nonsense tale, listeners are invited aboard an impossible voyage in search of a creature that may—or may not—exist. Led by a Bellman and accompanied by a most peculiar crew, the expedition unfolds through playful verse, absurd encounters, and a growing sense of unease. What seems to begin as nonsense gradually deepens into something stranger: a meditation on meaning, pursuit, and the fragile line between certainty and disappearance.

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for “His hands strip poetry to its nub.” —Los Angeles Times “Reading [Wright] is like...

The author has birthed her first compilation of poetic words and rhymes. She has journaled throughout most of her life in the form of poetry, spanning many decades and covering subjects ranging from a family member's controversial murder or suicide in the early 1900s to a wedding poem written in our most up-to-date language, that of emojis. She has embraced many topics, from the whimsical to the spiritual, along her journey.

Songs that blow the mind.

When your world falls apart, where does hope hide? What if the breaking was never meant to destroy you — but to awaken you? In Awaken: Finding Hope Beyond Brokenness, poet and life coach Ítala Veloso shares a testimony in verse — written for every soul that's ever felt lost, unseen, or too broken to begin again. These poems are not polished prayers. They are raw honesty, battle cries, tear-stained revelations, and encounters with grace.

Crazy Love isn't a performance. It's a confession. This collection is drawn from over a decade of real journal entries and poetry that Adam Roa never planned to share. It traces the full arc of love: the intoxicating rush, the quiet terrors, the slow unraveling, and the heavy silence that follows when it's over. Woven from multiple relationships into a single emotional journey, these pages are honest to the point of reckless. But beneath the heartbreak runs something deeper. A return to self, hard-won and sacred, that only becomes possible once everything else falls away.

WHAT IS THE WEEPING DEGREE? BRONZE MEDAL WINNER IN POETRY--The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, U.K. (2025) DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE (2nd prize) --The Independent Press Awards, U.S. (2026) What if your worst wound became your greatest gift? What if your moment of greatest despair became the open door...

Even in the darkest of times, there are tiny moments of light - bright flashes that can illuminate the darkness even for a short time. It's important to grasp them and hold them as they pass. It's important to know that we can - no matter how briefly - still feel life, still exist and be neon bright in darkness.

What conflict can be wrought across a cosmos, cleansed of both the wicked and the just? What use is it to heed the call to action? When all that’s left to settle is the dust…This work attempts to answer those very questions, or at the very least explore their implications. A lone figure roams the red planet’s surface, and reckons with all that he has done, and all that he has lost.

Come aboard and sail the synaptic seas of sanity! Or lack thereof. What is truly going inside these capricious craniums of ours? What virtues and vices vie for command of our turbulent mindscapes? An equal parts cerebral and sentimental excursion into the voices that compel us all. Strap your heads in folks, for here there be monsters.

Tales Beyond The Pale is an anthology of poems ranging from the mundane to the fantastical, from the delightfully melancholy to the bitterly wistful. Meditations on myth, glimpses into the lives of unsung legends, stark confessions of the soul, and more await those who dare to pass beyond the pale…

The insidious, infectious allure of the macabre is one familiar to all, but can gruesome work be done in service of a noble cause? What lines are we prepared to cross to bring comfort to others? When the flesh and blood of grief give way to blessed bone, the King will soon be calling…

What does it mean to be human? The Ink That Binds Us: With Love, Always is a collection of poetry that explores the emotions, moments, and experiences that connect us all. From love and loss to hope, fear, growth, and everything in between, these poems reflect the journey of a life being lived one day at a time. Written with honesty and heart, these poems find meaning in both life's biggest milestones and its quietest moments. Some will make you reflect. Some will make you smile. Others may remind you of a chapter of your own story.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture the essence of Yooper Life from the settlers' days to the far-flung future. Since 2017, the U.P. Reader has offered a rich collection of voices that captures U.P.'s natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Experience Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy translated directly from the original Italian. Journey through the terrifying depths of Inferno, the hopeful ascent of Purgatorio, and the transcendent glory of Paradiso in a translation that honors Dante's...

In The Odyssey: Books 5 & 6, Homer’s epic journey surges forward as the gods finally decree Odysseus’s release from Calypso’s island. But freedom does not come easily. Cast again upon the mercy of the sea and the wrath of Poseidon, Odysseus must endure shipwreck, exhaustion, and near ruin...

This isn’t a book about perfect days. It’s about the weight you carrywhen no one is watching. About the battles that follow you home. About love that doesn’t leave. About becoming someone strongerwithout losing who you are.