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Title: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist

Author: James Anthony, William Shakespeare

Narrator: Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony, Stephen Fry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Release date: November 13, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand   James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs. This drew him to the rewarding 14-line structure of Shakespeare’s sonnets, yet he often found their abstract language frustratingly unintelligible. One day, out of curiosity, he rewrote Sonnet 18—Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day—line-by-line, in the strict five-beat iambic pentameter and rhyming patterns of the original, but in a contemporary language a modern reader could easily understand. The meaning and sentiment—difficult to spot, initially—came to life, revealing new intricacies in the workings of Shakespeare's heart.   And so, James embarked on a full-time, year-long project to rewrite all 154 of the Bard's eternal verses creating SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, RETOLD. This collection of masterful reinterpretations brilliantly demystifies and breathes new life into Shakespeare's work, demonstrating the continued resonance of a playwright whose popularity remains over 400 years after his death. Now, the passion, heartbreak, deception, reconciliation, and mortality of Shakespeare’s originals can be understood by all, without the need to cross reference to an enjoyment-sapping study-guide. Coming with a foreword by Stephen Fry, this is a stunning collection of beautiful love poems made new. Read by Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony, and Stephen Fry

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Title: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist

Author: James Anthony, William Shakespeare

Narrator: Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony, Stephen Fry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold by William Shakespeare and James Anthony, with a foreword by Stephen Fry. Read by Stephen Fry, Paapa Essiedu and the author. 'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has 'translated' Shakespeare’s sonnets and he has done so with an insolent, loveable charm … A dazzling success’ – Stephen Fry Rediscover the greatest love poetry ever written Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? You’re more delightful, always shining strong; High winds blow hard on flowering buds in May, And summer never seems to last that long… Shakespeare’s sonnets are some of the nation’s favourite lines of verse, but the Elizabethan language can make it difficult to really understand them. Many guides offer to clarify the meaning, but lose the magic of the words by explaining them away. James Anthony has done something boldly different. He has rewritten the whole series of poems as sonnets using modern language, while retaining the rhythm and rhyme patterns that gives them such power. In doing so he breathes new life into the original poems and opens them up for a modern readership, demystifying Shakespeare’s eternal poetry with provocative new translations and delightful new lines. With the original sonnets read by Stephen Fry, and the modern translations read by Paapa Essiedu, this is a stunning collection of beautiful love poems, made new.

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Title: The Lioness Awakens: Poems

Author: Lauren Eden

Narrator: Lauren Eden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Release date: November 6, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Lioness Awakens is an audiobook of short poems with a bite. Lauren Eden writes provocative poetry about love, sexuality, heartbreak, and feminism, combined in a creative expression of female empowerment and confidence. I was always suspicious of those Happily Ever Afters disappearing without a trace with no other pages as evidence.

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Title: The Luckiest Guy Alive

Author: John Cooper Clarke

Narrator: John Cooper Clarke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The godfather of British performance poetry - Daily Telegraph The Luckiest Guy Alive, performed by the author, is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades – and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’ to a hymn to the seductive properties of the pie – by way of hand-grenade haikus, machine-gun ballads and a meditation on the loss of Bono’s leather pants – The Luckiest Guy Alive collects stunning set pieces, tried-and-tested audience favourites and brand new poems to show Cooper Clarke still effortlessly at the top of his game. Cooper Clarke’s status as the ‘Emperor of Punk Poetry’ is certainly confirmed here, but so is his reputation as a brilliant versifier, a poet of vicious wit and a razor-sharp social satirist. Effortlessly immediate and contemporary, full of hard-won wisdom and expert blindsidings, it’s easy to see why the good Doctor has continued to inspire several new generations of performers from Alex Turner to Plan B: The Luckiest Guy Alive shows one of the most compelling poets of the age on truly exceptional form. ‘John Cooper Clarke is one of Britain’s outstanding poets. His anarchic punk poetry has thrilled people for decades ... long may his slender frame and spiky top produce words and deeds that keep us on our toes and alive to the wonders of the world.’ Sir Paul McCartney

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Title: Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 1-4: The BBC Radio 4 comedy

Author: Tim Key

Narrator: Tim Key, Tom Basden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Ever wondered just how much of life you can understand through poetry? Tim Key is never far from stage and screen - from Peep Show to Alpha Papa to Taskmaster. But now he's back doing what he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting his friend and musician, the equally brilliant, and long suffering, Tom Basden. From ruminating on the meaning of family via his narrative poem The Godfather, attempting to get to the bottom of death via his poem The Boy Who Faked His Own Death, and also organising an impromptu stag party, Tim Key uses poetry to help him understand every situation. 'In any other sphere apart from comedy, we'd probably class this way of looking at the world as certifiable. Here it feels like genius.' The Telegraph 'The show... has a kind of artistry and strange beauty that makes it unlike any other hour of stand-up you are likely to see.' The Observer '...You never know when Key will suddenly toss you a fantastic joke or startlingly well-constructed line.' Radio Times Audio updated April 2019

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Title: Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

Author: Mary Lambert

Narrator: Mary Lambert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Release date: October 23, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across is read by Mary Lambert and includes original music exclusive to the audiobook. Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.

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Title: Jabberwocky

Author: Lewis Carroll

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 3 minutes

Release date: October 23, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

This poem describes a battle with a fearsome beast called “The Jabberwock” and is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is included in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In an early scene in that novel, Alice discovers a book that is written backwards. Realizing that she’s in the inverted “looking-glass land,” she holds the book up to a mirror and is able to read the poem “Jabberwocky,” but she finds it to be just as nonsensical and perplexing as the world around her.

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Title: [Spanish] - Sacarse La Flecha del Corazón

Author: Alice Walker

Narrator: Yara Liceaga-Rojas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Release date: October 23, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Alice Walker, the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—offers the Spanish-language editions of poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Alice Walker shares a timely volume of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she’s urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans.

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Title: [Spanish] - Ahora que ya bailas

Author: Miguel Gane

Narrator: Miguel Gane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Release date: October 22, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

El nuevo poemario del autor de Con tal de verte volar, Miguel Gane, ahora en formato audiolibro Naces, creces, amas, te rompen, aprendes y no mueres hasta que alguien deja de quererte. Estos poemas son la historia de Ella, la que fue callada porque sus gritos resonaban demasiado alto. Ella, que dejó de ser suya porque quien debía liberar su sonrisa, la acabó enjaulando y aplastando contra el asfalto. Sola, fue capaz de levantarse, de mirar a la cara a su pasado y decirle: «No me has vencido, soy indestructible». Ahora que ya bailas, el mundo entero va a quedarse a tus pies y donde antes había silencio ahora habrá música. La tuya. Atrévete a escucharla.

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Title: What We’re Teaching Our Sons

Author: Owen Booth

Narrator: Owen Booth

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Release date: October 4, 2018

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. We’re teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends who’ve known you longer than you’ve known yourself, and the difference between zombies and vampires. We’re teaching them about sex, although everyone would be a lot happier if the subject had never come up… Meet the married Dads, the divorced Dads, the widowed Dads and the gay Dads; the gamblers, the firemen, the bankers, the nurses, the soldiers and the milkmen. They’re trying to guide their sons through the foothills of childhood into the bewildering uplands of adulthood. But it’s hard to know if they’re doing it right. Or what their sons’ mothers think… Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up.