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Brand New Ancients
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Kae Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem "Brand New Ancients" won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap, and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist - has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music.
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Powerful performance
- By but I don't have a pen... on 28-01-24
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Brand New Ancients
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-03-14
- Language: English
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Rapture
- By: Carol Ann Duffy
- Narrated by: Carol Ann Duffy
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is an audiobook-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive.
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Rapture
- Narrated by: Carol Ann Duffy
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales III
- Modern English Verse Translation
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Frank Ernest Hill - translator
- Narrated by: Timothy West, Charles Kay, Stephen Tompkinson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of 30 people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling stories to one another, their interaction mediated (at times) by the affable host - Chaucer himself. Naxos AudioBooks’ third volume presents the tales of six people, here in an unabridged modern verse translation (by Frank Ernest Hill, 1935).
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Just Wonderful
- By Janey May on 24-02-20
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The Canterbury Tales III
- Modern English Verse Translation
- Narrated by: Timothy West, Charles Kay, Stephen Tompkinson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sean Barrett, Rosalind Shanks, Michael Maloney
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-08-11
- Language: English
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My Darling from the Lions
- By: Rachel Long
- Narrated by: Rachel Long
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Rachel Long’s much anticipated debut collection of poems, My Darling from the Lions, announces the arrival of a thrilling new presence in poetry. Each poem has a vivid story to tell - of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion or sexual awakening - stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically conscious, wise, funny and outrageous.
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A wonder, vulnerable and a beautiful listen
- By Indi on 15-09-24
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My Darling from the Lions
- Narrated by: Rachel Long
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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You'll Come Back to Yourself
- By: Michaela Angemeer
- Narrated by: Michaela Angemeer
- Length: 26 mins
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Dive into this collection of poetry and prose inspired by modern dating and broken relationships, perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Orion Carloto.
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Beautifully written
- By Ash on 25-01-24
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You'll Come Back to Yourself
- Narrated by: Michaela Angemeer
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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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. It is easy to see how Wagner was enthralled by the story and the poetry for the power of the tale drives the narrative: intense love, loyalty, jealousy, murder, duty, honour and massacre are all interwoven into a classic.
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The Lay of the Nibelungs
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 24-07-19
- Language: English
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Beowulf
- By: Douglas Wilson
- Narrated by: Joffre Swait
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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So begins a dark, but sturdy epic full of warriors, dragons, monsters of the deep, mead halls, and mounds of treasure. Beowulf is the great Norse epic poem, and one of the great inspirations for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. In this bold and truly innovative translation, Douglas Wilson reproduces the alliteration and stresses of the original, though being more dynamic with particular wording.
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Beowulf
- Narrated by: Joffre Swait
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-07-24
- Language: English
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And so This Is Christmas
- 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems
- By: Brian Bilston
- Narrated by: Brian Bilston
- Length: 58 mins
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It’s that time of year again. With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty-one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to the office Christmas party; from voting day for turkeys to the impossible art of gift-giving. So hang your stockings, grab your mistletoe and curl up with this heart-warming collection of Christmas crackers.
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Very relatable poems about Christmas.
- By JOHN DARKER on 18-09-24
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And so This Is Christmas
- 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems
- Narrated by: Brian Bilston
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print. The prophet, Al Mustafa, has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition.
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The Prophet
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-01-24
- Language: English
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
- Poems
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'". It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared.
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Landscape of the prices of feeling
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-24
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
- Poems
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-09-19
- Language: English
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The Argonautica
- Jason and the Golden Fleece
- By: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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The Argonautica, also known as Jason and the Golden Fleece or Jason and the Argonauts, is the only surviving epic poem from Hellenistic Greece. It is a masterpiece whose story was well known to the audiences of the time. Virgil and other later poets were greatly influenced by it. Its author, Apollonius, was a well-known third century BC scholar living in Alexandria during the great age of Ptolomaic scholarship, and his bold attempt at writing a Homeric epic about Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece faced a daunting audience of knowledgeable contemporaries.
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The Argonautica
- Jason and the Golden Fleece
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-03-18
- Language: English
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How to Cure a Ghost
- By: Fariha Róisín
- Narrated by: Fariha Roisin
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.
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Sigh-heavies + embodied beauties
- By tamara on 09-12-22
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How to Cure a Ghost
- Narrated by: Fariha Roisin
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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The Perseverance
- By: Raymond Antrobus
- Narrated by: Raymond Antrobus
- Length: 49 mins
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The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet's father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.
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Authorial extras in the audio!
- By EEL on 28-03-20
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The Perseverance
- Narrated by: Raymond Antrobus
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 15-07-19
- Language: English
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bandit country
- By: James Conor Patterson
- Narrated by: James Conor Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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bandit country is written in the very particular dialect of the Irish border, as Ulster Scots and Ulster Gaelic shade into the language and culture of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Spectres of characters both mythic and real thread through these poems, giving them a slippery, ghostly quality. bandit country is a haunting exploration of this place and its people, looking back to the Troubles and forward towards Brexit—and to the ever-looming fences and boundaries with which we must reckon, collectively and urgently.
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Excellent poems, delivered with perfect narration
- By Niall Cunniffe on 02-04-23
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bandit country
- Narrated by: James Conor Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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She Must Be Mad
- By: Charly Cox
- Narrated by: Charly Cox
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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The powerful new collection of poetry and prose from social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy, Charly Cox. She Must Be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body. Charly captures the formative experiences of today’s young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt.
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She Must Be Mad
- Narrated by: Charly Cox
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
- By: Michael A. H. Newth - translator
- Narrated by: Greg Marston, Summe Williams, Julian DouglasSmith
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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The Song of Roland is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. Written down around the year 1090, The Song of Roland finely crafted verses tell of the betrayal and defeat of Charlemagne’s beloved nephew at the Pass of Roncevaux in the Pyrenees and of the revenge subsequently sought on his behalf.
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The Song of Roland
- Narrated by: Greg Marston, Summe Williams, Julian DouglasSmith
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-10-11
- Language: English
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Songs of the Gurus
- By: Khushwant Singh
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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The Sikh religion was founded by Guru Nanak (1469-1539), who drew upon the teachings of Muslim, Sufis, and Hindu Bhaktas. In its purest form Sikhism is about unity, simplicity, equality, and surrender (to God) and the verses of the Sikh Gurus - most of them included in the Granth Sahib - articulate this beautifully. This elegant edition contains a selection of verses from the Guru Granth Sahib and other sacred texts like Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Vairagmayi Bani and the Dasam Granth of Guru Gobind Singh.
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Songs of the Gurus
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-01-19
- Language: English
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Seeds Planted in Concrete
- By: Bianca Sparacino
- Narrated by: Bianca Sparacino
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Seeds Planted in Concrete is Bianca Sparacino's raw testament to the beauty that is found within the contrasts of life. Speaking truthfully about the intricacies of both love and loss, Sparacino's first collection of work will speak to the very depths of those who hear it, inspiring a will to love and live. This collection is a manifesto of the journey every human being takes throughout life - an assembly of words that celebrates the resilience of the human heart through stages of hurting, feeling, healing, and loving.
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Loved it
- By Anonymous User on 17-03-21
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Seeds Planted in Concrete
- Narrated by: Bianca Sparacino
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-05-16
- Language: English
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The Go-Getter
- A Story That Tells You How to Be One
- By: Peter B. Kyne
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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This classic motivational parable (over 500,000 copies sold worldwide) shows you how to make your own opportunities in life. Ever since its first printing in 1921, The Go-Getter has inspired employees and entrepreneurs to take initiative, increase their productivity, and excel against the odds. In this audiobook, Bill Peck, a war veteran and double amputee, not only fights to find employment, but continually proves himself more than competent at the many difficult tests that are thrown his way.
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Good story! Wish it was longer!
- By Siannie on 29-12-22
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The Go-Getter
- A Story That Tells You How to Be One
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 10-04-14
- Language: English
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Life of the Party
- If a Girl Screams, and Other Poems
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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A dazzling collection of raw and explosive poems from a thrilling new feminist voice. In this multi-faceted collection of odes, anecdotes, sonnets and prose, Olivia Gatwood weaves together the trials and triumphs of growing up and explores the many ways that fear and violence can be internalised in a woman's psyche. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today’s world and the challenge of briefly being both.
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Incredible.
- By Lola Bergen on 15-10-19
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Life of the Party
- If a Girl Screams, and Other Poems
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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