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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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ridiculous 3 hour introduction
- By Anonymous User on 12-02-2020
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
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Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
- A Spiritual Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
- By: Robin Sharma
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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This international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace....
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Gawd.. please make it stop!
- By elena collins on 20-07-2018
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Dante's Inferno
- A Study on Part I of The Divine Comedy
- By: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Narrated by: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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With Professor Esolen you will enter the terrible gates of Hell and progress level by infernal level to its diabolical depths. Professor Esolen places a special emphasis on the drama of the poem, leading you through each canto in succession....
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Loved it!
- By Cat Done on 07-03-2019
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot
- Read by Jeremy Irons
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....
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It was over all too quickly!
- By Pia Horan-Gross on 22-09-2018
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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ridiculous 3 hour introduction
- By Anonymous User on 12-02-2020
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
- A Spiritual Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
- By: Robin Sharma
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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This international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace....
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Gawd.. please make it stop!
- By elena collins on 20-07-2018
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Dante's Inferno
- A Study on Part I of The Divine Comedy
- By: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Narrated by: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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With Professor Esolen you will enter the terrible gates of Hell and progress level by infernal level to its diabolical depths. Professor Esolen places a special emphasis on the drama of the poem, leading you through each canto in succession....
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Loved it!
- By Cat Done on 07-03-2019
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot
- Read by Jeremy Irons
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....
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It was over all too quickly!
- By Pia Horan-Gross on 22-09-2018
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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The Sonnets
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: The Marlowe Society
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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An all-star cast including John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Anthony Quayle, and Peggy Ashcroft come together to read all 154 Sonnets....
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The Lay of the Nibelungs
- By: Alice Horton - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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One of the finest German medieval epic poems, The Lay of the Nibelungs is perhaps best known now as one of the principal sources for Wagner’s four-part music drama The Ring of the Nibelung....
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Parzival
- By: Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Jessie L. Weston - translator
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
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Parzival is a romantic poem written by Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. Regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Middle Ages, the romance was the most popular vernacular verse narrative in medieval Germany....
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Test review
- By Luisa on 13-10-2020
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Paradise Lost
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Milton, John Leonard
- Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....
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Epic
- By Jamin on 21-04-2021
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Andy Biersack Presents the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Andy Biersack
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Legendary Black Veil Brides' founder and frontman Andy Biersack curated his favorite Edgar Allan Poe tales, presented here in their original language with supplemental materials....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 17-12-2022
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The Way Forward
- By: Yung Pueblo
- Narrated by: Yung Pueblo
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most ambitious collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding listeners further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others....
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❤️ loved it!
- By Anonymous User on 21-11-2023
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The Book of Disquiet
- By: Fernando Pessoa
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory....
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four words explain this book
- By Matthew E. Hesketh on 05-01-2022
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Your Wound/My Garden
- Poetry by ALOK
- By: Alok Vaid-Menon
- Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
- Length: 57 mins
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When we don’t process the pain, where does it go? What is the purpose of being alive when there’s so much suffering? What does it mean to live and die with dignity in a world utterly opposed to it? Your Wound/My Garden is a collection of poetry written during Covid-19 lockdown....
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And Still I Rise (Unabridged Selections)
- A Book of Poems
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 22 mins
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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....
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love it
- By Amazon Customer on 01-06-2018
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The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- By: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
- Narrated by: Blake Ritson, John Hurt, David Warner, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem "Inferno"....
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Wow!
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-2019
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I Must Be Living Twice
- New and Selected Poems
- By: Eileen Myles
- Narrated by: Eileen Myles
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls....
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The Odyssey
- By: Nikos Kazantzakis
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 35 hrs and 32 mins
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A continuation of Homer’s epic poem, Kazantzakis’s own Odyssey finds Odysseus once again leaving Ithaca on finding that the satisfactions of home and hearth are not as he remembered them....
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Many Miles
- Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
- By: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Mary Oliver
- Length: 39 mins
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Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second CD from best-selling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of 37 previously published poems....
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Delightfully Mary
- By Anonymous User on 09-03-2021
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Inferno: From The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Benedict Flynn - translator
- Narrated by: Heathcote Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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"Abandon all hope you who enter here." Dante’s Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature....
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Sorry reviewers I just put my review in Purgatory
- By Jan on 17-06-2017
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....
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Better than expected
- By Brydie Robinson on 07-02-2023
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....
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Worth listening to
- By Simon on 02-05-2019
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Clarity and Connection
- By: Yung Pueblo
- Narrated by: Yung Pueblo
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose that illuminates how past wounds impact our present relationships....
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I love the content
- By Shna on 06-03-2023
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The Great Poets: Robert Burns
- By: Robert Burns
- Narrated by: Forbes Masson
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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A pioneer of the Romantic movement, works such as "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man’s a Man for a’ That", and the ubiquitous "Auld Lang Syne", have made Burns an international figure....
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Layli and Majnun
- By: Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Serena Manteghi, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a 12th-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families....
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The Incomplete Tim Key
- About 300 of His Poetical Gems and What-Nots
- By: Tim Key
- Narrated by: Tim Key
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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A wildly original poetry collection written and read by one of the UK’s most exciting young comics....
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Big fan of Tim Key, but…
- By "erecksywhatsit" on 11-05-2022
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Power of TED*
- *The Empowerment Dynamic: 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: David Emerald
- Narrated by: Ryan Sitzberger
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Through serendipity he meets some wise guides, Ted and Sophia, who show David how he can move from feeling like a victim to being a creator of his own life....
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Amazing book!!
- By sura on 26-03-2024
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Selected Poetry by Lewis Carroll
- By: Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Featuring some of Lewis Carroll's most famous and best-loved poems - including "Jabberwocky" (1871) and "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876) - as well as lesser-known gems....
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written....
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Is the editing a joke?
- By Otras on 02-04-2021
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Mahabharata Vol 2 (Part 2)
- By: Bibek Debroy
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins - the Pandavas and the Kouravas - but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace....
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With Love, Grief and Fury
- By: Salena Godden
- Narrated by: Salena Godden
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet; grief poems brimming with compassion, sharing tears and mourning what was and contemplating what could be; and poems of fire and fury that will kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change and hope. Over thirty years after she first stormed the UK poetry scene, the trailblazing and award-winning writer Salena Godden has produced her most audacious and definitive collection to date. Like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, With Love, Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul.
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F--king Asshole: God Swears Too?
- A Poem About Pain and Forgiveness
- By: Emma Lee
- Narrated by: Luna Yves
- Length: 7 mins
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F--king asshole is a poem that expresses pain, anger, hurt, frustration, forgiveness, comfort, hope, and healing. Come and see how one honest, gut-wrenching phrase can start at unexplainable hurt and anger and lead to unparalleled peace and love.
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Love and Life
- Poems About You and Me
- By: Ziri Dafranchi
- Narrated by: Matt Church
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Have you ever wondered what life would be like without love? Life is a priceless gift deliberately crafted and packaged for our enjoyment, but it is not a bed of roses. It is a mixture of the good, bad and ugly-including pains and gains, sadness and joy, despair and hope, failures and successes- and it ends in death. Death reminds us we must make the most of this gift before it expires. How can we do this? Love and life are inseparable, dependent and complementary; love powers life while life makes love visible.
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Hiding Behind My Bipolar Mask
- By: Onya Page
- Narrated by: Mandy Grant-Grierson
- Length: 37 mins
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Join Onya Page as she gently guides you through the struggles of living with bipolar disorder II, helping you better understand mental health. This book explores a world of emotions through simple yet powerful poetry. With heartfelt verses, this collection offers comfort and companionship to those going through the process of their inner struggles. Through each poem, discover the courage to confront the shadows and embrace the light within.
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Three Poems from Rudyard Kipling
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Stanley Morrison, GH Hendricksen, Paul Lahnerd
- Length: 11 mins
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was an English novelist, writer, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895, Kim, 1901, as well as, many well-known short stories and poems. The three poems include "Sussex," read by Stanley Morrison; "If," by GH Hendricksen; and "Gunga Din" by Paul Lahnerd.
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Cornered by the Dark: Poems
- Paraclete Poetry
- By: Harold J. Recinos
- Narrated by: Harold J. Recinos
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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W. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Julia Equivel, Thomas Merton, Langston Hughes, Pedro Pietri and Miguel Piñero, in their work make a connection between poetry, social criticism and the meaning of life together, that is a part of Harold Recino's literary labor. His work creates a fusion between the personal and the public in verse that is searching, expansive, and walking hurt streets.
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With Love, Grief and Fury
- By: Salena Godden
- Narrated by: Salena Godden
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet; grief poems brimming with compassion, sharing tears and mourning what was and contemplating what could be; and poems of fire and fury that will kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change and hope. Over thirty years after she first stormed the UK poetry scene, the trailblazing and award-winning writer Salena Godden has produced her most audacious and definitive collection to date. Like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, With Love, Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul.
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F--king Asshole: God Swears Too?
- A Poem About Pain and Forgiveness
- By: Emma Lee
- Narrated by: Luna Yves
- Length: 7 mins
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F--king asshole is a poem that expresses pain, anger, hurt, frustration, forgiveness, comfort, hope, and healing. Come and see how one honest, gut-wrenching phrase can start at unexplainable hurt and anger and lead to unparalleled peace and love.
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Love and Life
- Poems About You and Me
- By: Ziri Dafranchi
- Narrated by: Matt Church
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered what life would be like without love? Life is a priceless gift deliberately crafted and packaged for our enjoyment, but it is not a bed of roses. It is a mixture of the good, bad and ugly-including pains and gains, sadness and joy, despair and hope, failures and successes- and it ends in death. Death reminds us we must make the most of this gift before it expires. How can we do this? Love and life are inseparable, dependent and complementary; love powers life while life makes love visible.
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Hiding Behind My Bipolar Mask
- By: Onya Page
- Narrated by: Mandy Grant-Grierson
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Join Onya Page as she gently guides you through the struggles of living with bipolar disorder II, helping you better understand mental health. This book explores a world of emotions through simple yet powerful poetry. With heartfelt verses, this collection offers comfort and companionship to those going through the process of their inner struggles. Through each poem, discover the courage to confront the shadows and embrace the light within.
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Three Poems from Rudyard Kipling
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Stanley Morrison, GH Hendricksen, Paul Lahnerd
- Length: 11 mins
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was an English novelist, writer, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895, Kim, 1901, as well as, many well-known short stories and poems. The three poems include "Sussex," read by Stanley Morrison; "If," by GH Hendricksen; and "Gunga Din" by Paul Lahnerd.
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Cornered by the Dark: Poems
- Paraclete Poetry
- By: Harold J. Recinos
- Narrated by: Harold J. Recinos
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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W. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Julia Equivel, Thomas Merton, Langston Hughes, Pedro Pietri and Miguel Piñero, in their work make a connection between poetry, social criticism and the meaning of life together, that is a part of Harold Recino's literary labor. His work creates a fusion between the personal and the public in verse that is searching, expansive, and walking hurt streets.
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Rest Your Souls
- By: Andrea D. Dean
- Narrated by: Joss
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Many women in the 21st Century today are more successful now in the marketplace than ever before, oftentimes, moving past their issues, but never resting. This metaphoric and literary masterpiece is constructed to help women visualize the exposure of hidden issues from past and present, ultimately leading to overcoming hurts, failures and disappointments. You will be encouraged to see that you are not the only one who has been marginalized by your experiences.
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Face in the Window
- By: Cheryl Knoll
- Narrated by: Torii Alaniz
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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What was happening to our country? There were a lot of people just like me. We were faces in our windows, looking out, wondering what in the world was going on. We have some evil giants trying to stomp us down, and they are trying to turn our country into something we cannot accept.
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Melodies of the Mind
- Poetic Explorations of Inner Worlds
- By: William Gomes
- Narrated by: Matt Jenkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into the ethereal landscapes of the human spirit with William Gomes's transformative collection, "Melodies of the Mind: Poetic Explorations of Inner Worlds." Within the boundless realms of thought and emotion, this anthology of poetry invites listeners on a profound journey through the innermost corridors of the self. Here, amidst the flourishing gardens of insight and the tumultuous seas of sentiment, the essence of the human experience is echoed in the reverberating symphony of the soul.
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Addictions, Convictions, & Virtues
- By: Franklin Rockwell, James Rockwell
- Narrated by: Paul Farney
- Length: 38 mins
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This is a collection of poems that we have written inspired by our personal experiences, while our minds have wandered in and out of the darker realms of addiction and confinement and the appreciations of life's more beautiful things that too many take for granted.
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May Day
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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May Day is the long-awaited collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. As the title suggests, these poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency of Black Lives Matter.
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Cold Swimming: Gently, Rub Me Down
- Fitness, Book 2
- By: Mike Blake
- Narrated by: Mike Blake
- Length: 5 mins
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This Poem is about the art of cold swimming, and it is an art. You need eventually to be able to breathe properly, and pace yourself in cold water, timing is all important, observing the seasons as to how much your 'own' body may take.
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Fiere
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Jackie Kay’s new collection is a lyric counterpart to her memoir, Red Dust Road, the extraordinary story of the search for her Nigerian and Highland birth-parents; but it is also a moving book in its own right, and a deep enquiry into all forms of human friendship. Fiere – Scots for ‘companion, friend, equal’ – is a vivid description of the many paths our lives take, and of how those journeys are made meaningful by our companions on the road: lovers, friends, parents, children, mentors – as well as all the remarkable and chance acquaintances we would not otherwise have made.
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The Sunflower Project
- By: unLYSHed
- Narrated by: unLYSHed
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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the sunflower project is a poetic memoir that tells of the author's genesis; growing from the seed of innocence and naivety, almost withering into nothingness with the loss of self-love and self-worth, then being revitalized by rediscovery and restoration. after surviving emotional abuse and sexual assault, the author finally takes steps back to herself by telling her story through poems, and ultimately unfolds new petals kissed by the sunshine of freedom, healing, and the reclaiming of her identity.
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Time for My Generation to Die
- By: E.D. Evans
- Narrated by: E.D. Evans
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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Pssssst! Hey, You, Yes…YOUR Generation (whichever that may be). Are you looking for Saccharin love sonnets? Maudlin two-line musings? Droning co-opted hip hop lyrics? You won't find that here....
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Sukun
- New and Selected Poems
- By: Kazim Ali
- Narrated by: Kazim Ali
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. "Sukun" means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant.
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Positivity Prevails
- Soliloquy SOULdiers (SS - X, Book 1)
- By: DexRay
- Narrated by: DexRay
- Length: 43 mins
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"Positivity Prevails", a poetic journey through the intricacies of existence. Exploring the symphony of emotions, where positivity leads the way. Each stanza is a revelation, unveiling life's magic and inviting listeners to embrace hope, resilience, and gratitude. From the realm of dreams to the challenges of reality, illuminate the path to inner strength and peace. Through valleys of trials and triumphs, discover a sanctuary where positivity prevails.