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Title: [Spanish] - El romancero gitano - dramatizado

Author: Federico García Lorca

Narrator: Jose Carlos Cuevas, Niloofer Khan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 44 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2019

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Puede considerarse como la obra poética más importante del siglo XX.  El mismo Federico la definía como 'mi obra más popular' y él la llamaba gitana, 'porque el gitano es el alfabeto de la verdad andaluza y universal'.Los temas que salpican el romancero a lo largo de sus 18 romances recorren valores universales como la muerte, la noche, el cielo o la luna.El romancero está ambientado en los barrios gitanos de Andalucía, desarrollándose los tipos míticos masculinos como 'Antoñito', 'el Camborio' o 'el Amargo', arquetipos gitanos amigos de violentas reyertas frente a los cuales encuadra a las gitanas, Preciosa o Soledad Montoya, consumidas por trágicas pasiones.  - Federico García Lorca fue un poeta y dramaturgo español nacido en 1868 en Fuente Vaqueros, Granada. Perteneciente a la Generación del 27, se relacionó con muchos de los escritores e intelectuales más importantes de España, como Luis Buñuel, Rafael Alberti o Salvador Dalí.

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Title: The Half-God of Rainfall

Author: Inua Ellams

Narrator: Inua Ellams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 2

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land take note. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows Gods often act like men: the same fragile egos, the same unpredictable fury and the same sense of entitlement to the bodies of mortals. She will sacrifice everything to protect her son, but she knows the Gods will one day tire of sports fans, their fickle allegiances and misdirected prayers. When that moment comes, it won’t matter how special he is. Only the women in Demi’s life, the mothers, daughters and Goddesses, will stand between him and a lightning bolt.

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Title: Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems

Author: Campbell Mcgrath

Narrator: Campbell Mcgrath

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Release date: April 2, 2019

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets. Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America’s most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where he’s headed while charting the territory already explored, McGrath gives us startlingly inventive new poems while surveying his previous work—lyric poems, prose poems, and a searing episodic personal epic, “An Odyssey of Appetite,” exploring America’s limitless material and spiritual hungers. Nothing is too large or small to remain untouched by McGrath’s voracious intellect and deep empathy—everything from Japanese eggplant to a can of Schaefer beer to the smokestacks of Chicago comes in for a close and perceptive look even as McGrath crosses borders and boundaries, investigating the enduring human experiences of love and loss. A book that stands on its own solid foundation, Nouns & Verbs captures the voice and vision of a truly singular poet.

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Title: Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets

Author: Khalil Gibran

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time explores the mysteries of life. Here is bite-sized wisdom for daily living. Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets is a collection of Gibran’s words on life’s big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are part of the fabric of existence, and it is an attempt to penetrate and explain the mysteries of life. Gibran was fascinated by life’s puzzles and riddles—those questions that cause us to stop what we are doing and ask, “Why?” Here are his musings about the seemingly unanswerable questions and his exploration of good and evil, love and hate, and the difference between appearances and reality. Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets is organized into five sections that elucidate the key issues and questions that each of us faces: Entering the Labyrinth of LifeSecrets of Life and DeathLife’s Ups and DownsSecrets of Good and EvilTraveling the Inner PathThis inspirational volume gently guides listeners through life’s big issues: meaning and mortality, good and evil, and discovering an authentic spiritual path. Suitable for all gift-giving occasions, it delights, informs, and inspires.

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Title: How to Love a Country: Poems

Author: Richard Blanco

Narrator: Richard Blanco

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2019

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people—immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and where we can all truly thrive. The poems form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; a lynching in Alabama; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet’s abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed as a gay man. But despite each poem’s unique concern or occasion, all are fundamentally struggling with the overwhelming question of how to love this country.

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Title: A Normal…Family, Life, Love, Imagination & Nature: The BBC Radio 4 stand up shows

Author: Henry Normal

Narrator: Henry Normal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2019

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Henry Normal uses poetry, storytelling and comedy to tackle big subjects with his trademark humour. This collection includes five of his funny and moving BBC Radio 4 shows: A Normal Family is centred around Henry's son, Johnny, who was diagnosed with autism. Through stand-up and poetry, Henry explores what this means for Johnny, for himself, and for his wife, Angela. A Normal Life continues to draw on Henry's experiences of bringing up a child with autism, and tackles the subjects of life, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers. A Normal Love sees Henry explore love, romance and other unreasonable expectations. A Normal Imagination looks at the reasons why humans create. A Normal Nature is an exploration of unsung nature, from the point of view of a busy urban human. These extended episodes include material never broadcast on the radio. ‘It's a rare and lovely thing: half an hour of radio that stops you short, gently demands your attention and then wipes your tears away while you have to have a little sit down’ - The Guardian A Normal Life was awarded a Silver ARIA for Best Comedy/Entertainment production at the 2017 Radio Academy Awards. Written and performed by Henry Normal. Produced by Carl Cooper. A BBC Studios Production.

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Title: Sincerity

Author: Carol Ann Duffy

Narrator: Carol Ann Duffy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Release date: December 13, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

'Carol Ann Duffy is considered a top poet. But she deserves better. She deserves to outsell most of the novelists on your shelf ' Observer The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Sincerity is Duffy’s final collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the Costa Award-winning The Bees. Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of life. There are moving elegies here for what has departed; whether that be children who have flown the nest, a way of life, literary luminaries, past loves, lost parents or our own youth. As Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, she finds moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. This collection finds a poet at the height of her powers using her full poetic range, casting her eye both inwards, in poems of a deeply personal nature, and yet also outwards, taking stock of a world in turmoil. In some of her most radical work yet, we see Duffy satirise and unpick the deception and dishonesty at the heart of our current political situation. A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity. A fitting culmination to her time as a Poet Laureate, this collection, at once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our most cherished and humane poets.

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Title: The Long Take: A noir narrative

Author: Robin Robertson

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Release date: November 20, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

**Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize** **Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize** From the award-winning British author—a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but—as those dark, classic movies made clear—the country needed outsiders to study and to dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene—and into the heart of an unforgettable character—in this highly original work of art.

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Title: The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

Author: William Sieghart

Narrator: William Sieghart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart. As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensary Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This audiobook presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain. 'The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetryin relation to its biggest and most serious task: helping us to live and diewell' Alain de Botton 'Truly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder - the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen Fry

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Title: The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

Author: Jackson Crawford

Narrator: Jackson Crawford

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Release date: November 13, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 27

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

“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 importance, containing the lion’s share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford’s modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping. With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today’s readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.”—Dick Ringler, Professor Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison