Poetry

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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....

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

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War....

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....

Featuring a delightful cast of characters and timeless Buddhist wisdom, and with His Holiness' compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama's Cat is simply enchanting....

Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry....

Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem "Inferno"....

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

An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....

சலபபதகரமம மணமகலயம தமழரகளன வழவல கலநத இரடடக கபபயஙகள. மணமகல கறம தததவக கறகளம வழவயல கரததகளம அறம தடரபன நலபபடகளம மக மககயமனவ. கதல வழககககம தறவ வழககககம இடயயன அததன மரணபடகளயம மணமகல பல அலசம பறதர நல இலல எனற சலலவடலம.

Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, with a preface by his holiness the Dalai Lama, now in audio for the first time....

Baudelaire’s most famous collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil, which was published in 1857 and which was widely condemned as being unwholesome and decadent. The publication actually led to Baudelaire being prosecuted on a charge of offending public morals....

An exquisite poetry collection from the creator of The Daily Victorian that celebrates the hidden versions of ourselves, and unveils the healing power of nostalgia, imagination, and hope

"IF", a poem by Rudyard Kipling, is a timeless gem that recently reemerged in popular culture....

La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori: Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda e la sua...

"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date....

Adventure from the Australian Outback. Cowboy style poetry from Australia's Banjo Paterson....

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....

Listen to Grammy Award-winning poet Maya Angelou read her newest work, "Amazing Peace", as well some of her best-loved poems in this unique and inspiring audio collection....

A wildly original poetry collection written and read by one of the UK’s most exciting young comics....

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....

This collection of timeless British and American poems is an experience to be treasured....

A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds listeners there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days.

Step into the hauntingly beautiful world of the Brontë sisters, where passion, melancholy, and fierce independence collide. This collection brings together the complete poems of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë—three women whose words continue to resonate across centuries. From the wild, windswept moors to the depths of the human soul, these poems explore themes of love, loss, and longing with raw, unflinching emotion. A timeless treasure for listeners seeking the power of poetic brilliance and the voices of these groundbreaking literary icons.

For the fan of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression. The anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body. Three sections—"Foremothers and Forefathers," "The Disability Poetics Movement," and "A Language of New Embodiment"—gather the poems and statements on poetics together in a meaningful whole.

Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers love, from Tristan and Isolde to Layla and Majnun to Romeo and Juliet to Gatsby and Daisy.

The great Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna wrote his celebrated poem Letter to a Friend as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition. Despite its short length (only 123 verses), it covers the entire Mahayana path, combining a practical approach to daily conduct with a theoretical exposition of the different stages leading to enlightenment. It has thus been an ideal source for many of Tibet’s greatest scholars seeking a scriptural authority to enhance their own descriptions of the Buddhist path.

Gabi Abrāo’s Notes on Shapeshifting is an ode to existing in physical form, fully aware of the changing energy that flows through every aspect of it.

Modern parenthood can feel indescribable. This poignant collection of poetry and art chronicles the ups and downs of a rollercoaster ride that every parent will recognize. Capturing the joys and frustrations that come with each fleetingly precious (or interminable) stage of development, Poems of Parenting will be a balm to the soul of weary parents. From fresh baby snuggles to terrible tantrums, and everything in-between, artist Loryn Brantz has touched on something unique and universal in her debut poetry collection based on her popular Instagram series

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible.

Loss-iLahleko (A National Choreopoem): The Audio Experience invites you on a heartfelt journey of loss and return. This audio adaptation brings the choreopoem from the full-length book Loss-iLahleko (A National Choreopoem) to life, offering a deeply moving literary and sonic experience.

Vita Sackville-West’s book length poem celebrates the landscapes and produce of the Weald of Kent. Divided into four parts—Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn—it paints a vivid picture of the Kentish countryside across the year and the farming practices of the Kentish folk eking out a living on its unpredictable clayey soils. Published in 1926, the poem was a great success, winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and going through six print runs in three years.

Воздух — это одна из самых динамических стихий, которую мы ощущаем только в ее движении. Эта книга посвящена стихии воздуха и ее отображению в литературе. Гастон Башляр анализирует творчество Фридриха Ницше, Райнера Марии Рильке, Уильяма Блейка, Перси Шелли и других писателей и поэтов, препарируя явленные и скрытые образы, разбирая метафоры, предлагая неожиданные истолкования. По мнению французского философа, поэтический образ следует не понимать, а переживать, он сам есть действительность и не может сводиться ни к чему иному.

En los poemas de José Emilio Pacheco, escribió Octavio Paz, se exalta la victoria de la naturaleza sobre la cultura y al exaltarla la transfigura, la convierte en palabra. Se ha querido ver en la poesía de José Emilio Pacheco la imagen de la desolación y del tiempo que se ha ido y no volverá. Es eso, pero también es la conciencia del instante irrepetible: "Una gota de lluvia temblaba en la enredadera. / Toda la noche está en esa humedad sombría. / De repente la luna ilumina".

In this recording, Plath reads "Black Rook in Rainy Weather," "A Secret, Stopped Dead," "A Birthday Present," "November Graveyard," "Medusa," "The Disquieting Muses," "The Stones," and "Cut."

This is a literary composition composed for those who feel like nobody's listening. For my comrades, my mom and my dad, and my two sisters who showed me what it means to be different. For the drug addicts that fiend but still dream of better conditions, huddled with puddles on pillows with Brillos and pipes, not bathed or slept in days, high as a kite. For the single parents that struggle working doubles, taxing their muscles so their children can comfortably cuddle and sleep at night.

A collection of poetry in eight parts, flowing between moments of delicate warmth and bursts of raw intensity. These Gossamer Recollections is an honest and intimate journey towards hope. This book is for the listeners who crave a safe space to explore their own feelings—their own journeys—and discover unique meaning in the beauty of words. Our stories, etched with fading ink On finest vellum sheaves— Mysteries to deepen with every passing year; Memories whispered to silent ears Are scattered among the misplaced thoughts— These clues and hints we scarcely understand.

Seit sein Hund Lola gestorben ist, kann den kleinen Niklas nichts mehr erfreuen. Alles ist in Traurigkeit gehüllt. Selbst wenn er mit seinen Freunden spielt, ist es nicht mehr so wie früher. Die Erde sieht dunkler aus als sonst, die Nässe ist nasser und die guten Schuhe drücken, wenn er rennt. Niklas fragt sich, ob Trauer je verschwinden kann, wenn doch alles vergeht - selbst die Schönheit der Welt... Oder ob man verlernen kann diese Schönheit zu sehen? Eines Tages lernt er einen alten Mann kennen, der immer allein auf einer Bank sitzt und in die Sonne blinzelt oder in den Schnee starrt.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘novel in verse’ is an epic poem that voices with enchanting beauty and literary courage the perspective of Victorian women. Aurora Leigh forges her own path to become a poet, successfully proving her worth, defying the ideals of her era, and rescuing her spirit from the suppression of a routine domestic life. Infusing the work with her own experience and passion, Browning produced a true masterpiece.

The Spirit-filled life is a lifelong adventure into the depths of God's Love. Jesus is the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, desiring to inundate everyone who comes to Him with Living Water from His Well, which never runs dry. He is waiting at the Well for anyone who will come, just as He waited when he met the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well many years ago here on Earth. He said to her, "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."

All That Spaz is a collection of poems covering a multitude of diverse topics. The poems within this book offer emotional connection, humor, sarcasm, insight, and ongoing inquiry for listeners.

Эта книга — об искусстве любить Россию и принимать её любовь. О том, как слова "широка страна моя родная" приобретают объём, когда жмёшь ветвь и карельской сосне, и сочинской пальме, словно руки друзьям. Махачкалинские облака-аксакалы, тверской жасмин у Дома Поэзии, аршинцевские заброшенные пляжи, выборгские поющие ангелы на крышах, оренбургские факелы газоперерабатывающего завода — то ли герои книги, то ли её соавторы. Истории, которые захотели быть услышанными, проступили сквозь кирпич и брусчатку, асфальт и горячую землю, старинные вывески и неоновые огни.

This novel is a letter to anyone overwhelmed by life challenges and obstacles. It offers the kind of upliftment and encouragement that will transform your life. Open Doors tells the familiar and innately human story of life, death, and love. This book is a collection of Mrs. Hines's award-winning pros that will pull you in from the very first sentence. Anyone, especially young adults, can enjoy Open Doors. Sonya Daniels-Hines believes that everyone has a story to be heard.

"Poetry in a half-shell" is a collection of poems written by Jackson in the span of two months.

It explores themes of religion, sex, psychology, trauma and humour. It doesn't fully fall under one category of poetic fiction but more under whatever the author felt like writing that day. He hopes you enjoy and apologies for if the content is lacking or triggering.

Peace and Love, Everyone :)

Through my everyday experiences, these are the thoughts I have gathered along my journey. Some are self-reflections, while others are my perceptions of those I have encountered. If you recognize yourself in these words, know that my thoughts are with you.

Author Mae Bea Sayes is an artist-poet inspired by life, love, and literature. She transposes poems from images that come alive from ideas about her journey with the meter of language and the characters of literature. She creates cadence through wordplay and loves rhyme whenever it works. In her new collection of poems, The Graveyard and Other Poems, she examines the journey of the souls death, reawakening, and redemption.

A book of poetry from the common man's perspective. Poems that encompass all the feelings and musings of the life of the common man. This collection covers a 30-year span in the author's life and conveys the emotions and moods he was feeling at the time. Each poem is a snapshot of the writer's life at the moment of its composition.