Poetry Collection Audiobooks
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
by D H Lawrence
58 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Free and Formal Verse Poetry Collection
1918
The 1918 “New Poems” collection by the ever controversial (sometimes-deemed “pornographic,” but this collection contains only a smattering of his erotica) English writer. Includes 42 poems:
Apprehension
Coming Awake
From a College Window
Flapper
Birdcage Walk
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree
Flat Suburbs, SW, in the Morning
Thief in the Night
Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March
Suburbs on a Hazy Day
Hyde Park at Night: Clerks
Gipsy
Two-Fold
Under the Oak
Sigh No More
Love Storm
Parliament Hill in the Evening
Piccadilly Circus at Night: Street-Walkers
Tarantella
In Church
Piano
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Embankment at Night: Charity
Phantasmagoria
Next Morning
Palimpsest of Twilight
Embankment at Night: Outcasts
Winter in the Boulevard
School on the Outskirts
Sickness
Everlasting Flowers
The North Country
Bitterness of Death
Seven Seals
Reading a Letter
Twenty Years Ago
Intime
Two Wives
Heimweh
Debacle
Narcissus
Autumn Sunshine
On That Day |
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on March 29, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
by Walt Whitman
44 minutes, 3 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
“Children of Adam” is the fourth book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman’s legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. This book is among Whitman’s most controversial with its celebration of sexuality. It includes the poems:
To the Garden the World
From Pent-up Aching Rivers
I Sing the Body Electric
A Woman Waits for Me
Spontaneous Me
One Hour to Madness and Joy
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We Two–How Long We were Fool‚Äôd
Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd
Native Moments
Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
Facing West from California’s Shores
Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
As Adam, Early in the Morning |
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on March 8, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Podcast, Walt Whitman
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
by Walt Whitman
2 hours, 20 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
“Song of Myself” is the longest and most famous book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman’s legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. Song of Myself is a longform poem in 52 parts. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on November 16, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Podcast, Walt Whitman
Monday, April 26th, 2010
by Robert Frost
45 minutes, 56 seconds
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1913
A Boy’s Will is the first poetry collection by Robert Frost. Includes 32 poems, painting pictures of New England and tackling Frost’s famously grand themes of isolation, death, coming of age (in literature and in life), and the world’s natural spirituality.
Part I:
Into My Own
Ghost House
My November Guest
Love and a Question
A Late Walk
Stars
Storm Fear
Wind and Window Flower
To a Thawing Wind
A Prayer in Spring
Flower-Gathering
Rose Pagonias
Asking for Rosas
Waiting–Afield at Dusk
In a Vale
A Dream Pang
In Neglect
The Vantage Point
Mowing
Going for Water |
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Part II
Revelation
The Trial by Existence
In Equal Sacrifice
The Tuft of Flowers
Spoils of the Dead
Pan with Us
The Demiurge’s Laugh
Part III
Now Close the Windows
A Line-Storm Song
October
My Butterfly
Reluctance
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Note: The podcast includes only the first third of the collection. The complete, unabridged poems are included in the downloadable bundles.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 26, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
by Carl Sandburg
2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1916
This complete collection includes the Telltale Weekly recordings of all 7 volumes of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems, originally sold individually as
- Chicago Poems – 55 poems – 65 minutes
- Handfuls – 11 poems – 4 minutes
- War Poems 1914-1915 – 11 poems – 11 minutes
- The Road and the End – 11 poems, 10 minutes
- Fogs and Fires – 28 poems – 17 minutes
- Shadows – 9 poems – 6 minutes
- Other Days (1900-1910) – 23 poems – 22 minutes
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on February 22, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
by Robert W Service
1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.” This collection has also been published as “Songs of a Sourdough.”
Read by Craig R Currier. Podcast includes the poem “My Madonna.” Complete audiobook collection (in the downloadable archives above) includes:
The Land God Forgot
The Spell of the Yukon
The Heart of the Sourdough
The Three Voices
The Law of the Yukon
The Parson’s Son
The Call of the Wild
The Lone Trail
The Pines
The Lure of Little Voices
The Song of the Wage Slave
Grin
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Cremation of Sam McGee
My Madonna
Unforgotten
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The Reckoning
Quatrains
The Men that Don’t Fit In
Music in the Bush
The Rhyme of the Remittance Man
The Low-Down White
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Younger Son
The March of the Dead
Fighting Mac
The Woman and the Angel
The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
New Year’s Eve
Comfort
The Harpy
Premonition
The Tramps
L’Envoi
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Originally for sale on November 16, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
by Walt Whitman
25 minutes, 8 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry
1855
The second book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman’s legendary Leaves of Grass. “Starting from Paumanok” is a longform poem in 19 parts. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 30, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a revolutionary American poet and essayist from Long Island. His multi-volume book of free verse poetry Leaves of Grass obliterated the then-acceptable form and subject limits of poetry.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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Friday, April 9th, 2004
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by Bruce Boston
33 minutes, 59 seconds
Unabridged Speculative Poetry
1990
An 18-poem audio chapbook by the Grand Master of Science Fiction Poetry. Read by the author and set to music by Jack Poley. Features the 1985 Rhysling Award Winner “For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets” and Rhysling Award Nominees “The FTL Addict Fixes” (1984), and “The Evolution of the Death Murals” (1986).
The poems in this collection first appeared in Asimov’s SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Berkely Poets Cooperative, Lost Roads, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, StarLine, Velocities, and Weird Tales. Full list…
The Alchemist Is Born in a Sudden Changing of Seasons
The Alchemist in Transit
The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent
A Thousand Faces
The Alchemist Among Us
And Soon a Wolf For Every Door
Mean Time 2000
Beyond Procreation
The Beserker Enters a Plea
The Evolution of the Death Murals
The Eyes of the Pilot
The Star Drifter Grounded
The FTL Addict Fixes
For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
From the Double Ruins of Helix
Against the Ebon Rush of Night
The Knowledge at Londrai
Luminaries
SF Poetry (sometimes called “Speculative Poetry,” sometimes called “Science Fiction Poetry”) explores similiar themes and poses similiar “What if?” questions usually associated with science fiction and fantasy prose.
Wired Magazine has commended Boston for having “uncommon grace and clarity of vision. Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter.”
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