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Title: The Poetry Hour, Volume 6

Subtitle: Time for the Soul

Author: Rabindranath Tagore, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-16

Publisher: Portable Poetry

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children's textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We've put together some very eclectic poetry, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of George Eliot, Tagore and Arthur Conan Doyle as well as themes on the sea, London and more.

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Title: The Poetry Hour, Volume 4

Subtitle: Time for the Soul

Author: William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Walt Whitman

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-16

Publisher: Portable Poetry

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children's textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We've put together some very eclectic poetry, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Robert Browning and William Butler Yeats as well themes on music, Ireland, lesbians and more.

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Title: The Poetry Hour, Volume 3

Subtitle: Time for the Soul

Author: Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-16

Publisher: Portable Poetry

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children's textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We've put together some very eclectic poetry, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Robert Burns as well as themes on Poet Laureates, autumn and more. All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul and reaching the parts of the soul that other arts cannot.

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Title: The Ballad of Reading Gaol with Humanitad

Author: Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Tim Dalgleish

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-16

Publisher: Wonky Octopus Press

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The delicious wildness of Oscar Wilde's work delighted some of his contemporaries and disgusted others. He was a writer and more especially, a man, who ignited passions both favorable and unfavorable.

This special edition of Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" includes several original features. Three textually different versions of "The Ballad" are presented. One of these is the original shorter version of the poem, originally edited by Wilde's good friend, Robbie Ross, for vocal recitation. Wilde's early poem "Humanitad" is also included as it has striking stylistic parallels with "The Ballad" and reveals the continuity of Wilde's work over the duration of his career.

"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is Oscar Wilde's most famous poem about his time in prison, after having been sentenced to two years hard labor for sodomy and gross indecency.

Members Reviews:

I'm garbage at reading poem books

I have to say, I'm garbage at reading poem books. I was originally interested in this because I had read The Picture of Dorian Gray, and afterwards I had looked up Oscar Wilde. I had found that this verse:

And alien tears will fill for him

Pity's long-broken urn,

For his mourners will be outcast men,

And outcasts always mourn.

is on his grave from the Ballad of Reading Gaol, and that's why I read it. Instead of being only about his imprisonment, I got a lot of fanciful poems that were a little superfluous. I thought the best poem in the book was the actual Ballad of Reading Gaol. It was vivid and accessible, unlike the heavy poems with all the mythology references. (I even like mythology!)

Anyway, took me awhile to get through this, even though it's pretty short.

Great writing, but I only liked it

I am biased, I love Wilde-- he can be a touch over the op (:D), but he's never dull. This is a long poem... or series of poems etched~stitched~crocheted together (at least in my mind). Mostly 1st person, but other forms are used yet reverts back to author's eyes view. I like to try to put them together in a longer narrative, even if that isn't the way the author intended them... because that is just something I like to do.

The Ballard of Reading Gaol

There was no doubt that Mr. Wilde is a master of the poetic word. All of his poetry that was written before he went to gaol was full of flowers, Gods and Goddesses and idyllic meadows. I was quite breathless from all that tulip tripping but I'm glad I sloughed on through to "Reading". This is by far Oscars most worthy poem. He perfectly caught the helpless cadence of men trapped in their own crime and punishment. I felt this unhappy man's plight like it were my own. Yes, Oscar, we do kill the ones we love. You also killed yourself but in the process created your most worthy words.

?Rating a classic of literature?

This is a classic. It is free. It was written by an acknowledged master. How very late-20th Century egocentrism to be asked to RATE something which has been a dip-and-taste book for decades. I'm a writer, I loved it. I don't give a damn about sexual proclivity, but you may turn up your nose because of the author, no matter the literary merit.

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Title: The Remaining Trouble and Other Battles

Author: Treavor Wagoner

Narrator: Treavor Wagoner, Stacy Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-16

Publisher: Treavor Wagoner

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Remaining Trouble and Other Battles is a compilation of coming-of-age poems focused on conflicts within relationships, within the environment, with other people, and especially with the self. It arrives heartbroken and unsettled followed by a journey through introspection and wonder. It seeks to understand the conflicted self and relationships after things fall apart.

Members Reviews:

Bold, Vulnerable, Introspective Journey

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

The poems in this book are thoughtful, emotional, and insightful. The author's introspection provides an eye-opening analysis of feelings many experience in life, in all types of relationships. I appreciated the vulnerability.

What about Treavor Wagoner and Stacy Thomas s performance did you like?

I loved that while the subjects presented in the book were vulnerable, the performances were bold and fearless. You feel the emotions of the words and appreciate the hope in the tone.

An interesting blend

I'm not usually and avid fan of poetry, but I found the experience of listening to Treavor read his own words insightful and soothing. It's easy to tell that he is determined and invested in this production, so I'm glad he was able to record it himself and capture it with his own authentic intention. At times, the words seem slightly dour and downtrodden, but they always seem to carry a more uplifting meaning behind them. It's a short listen, but a valuable experience that I am glad I had the opportunity to have.

awesome awesome awesome

loved it very descriptive narrative and a very epic book.finished this book in 2days.i will be reading again

Beautifully written and delivered

I listened to this audiobook in one sitting this weekend and loved it! If you are a fan of poetry, this will be a treat for you. It is beautifully written and eloquently delivered by Treavor Wagoner. Largely written in the time after a breakup, the poems run the gamut of emotions, but never fail to resonate with the listener. It's obvious his is a voice to be heard in a generation of young writers.

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Title: A Snowy Day in New York City

Subtitle: A Christmas Poem

Author: Waide Riddle

Narrator: Ted Gitzke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-16

Publisher: Waide Riddle

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Christmas and New York City have always gone together. They are the perfect match. This poem is a perfect homage to the city's rich history for celebrating the holidays. Archived in the UCLA Library of Special Collections.

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Title: 30 Christmas Poems to Make Your Holidays Bright!

Subtitle: Special Poems for the Holidays...Poems About Jesus, Love, Family, Friendship, Faith, More!

Author: Mike Freze

Narrator: Pete Beretta

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-16

Publisher: Michael Freze

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Beautiful poems for the holiday season!

These Christmas poems cover all the memories and moments we cherish during this special time of year. Poems of joy, sadness, love, family, celebration, memories, and praise. Take time to reflect on the meaning of the Christmas season for you, your family, and friends!

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Title: Orphan Meditations

Subtitle: A Collection of Poems

Author: Khaled Hafdhi

Narrator: Sean Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-16

Publisher: khaled hafdhi

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of poems from Khaled Hafdhi.

Members Reviews:

Orphans need love not meditation.

Khaled Hafdhi:

I cannot critique someone's artistic point of view however I've never felt more dark, emotionally withdrawn and hopeless until after I listened to this book. The love poems were dreary and desperate. This poor soul, did the Sun ever shine on him? Not to mention the monotoned narrator that had me bleeding out from my ears. This was sad and very poorly read.

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Title: Tales from Ovid

Author: Ted Hughes

Narrator: Ted Hughes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-16

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. He was also admired as a performer of his own work.

Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes' masterful versions of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, includes those of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe as well as many others.

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. The Hawk in the Rain was published by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children, including Wolfwatching (1989). He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for both Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

Critic Reviews:

"A breathtaking book .... To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence." (John Carey, Sunday Times)

"Hughes is as broad as Ovid and as subtle, as violent and as erotic, as elegant and as folksy - and often all at the same time. It is simply a beautiful match.... Tales from Ovid...is the greatest poem of Classical inspiration probably since the Cantos. It will live as one of the great works of our century." (Michael Hofmann, The Times)

"Magnificent.... Ovid's Metamorphoses captured the European imagination from Chaucer onwards and Hughes's treatment brings them back into the centre of our minds.... His tales are not so much a version as a reliving." (P. J. Kavanagh, Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Kids reading book.

good

summer reading was somewhat bareable

Three Stars

ok

Five Stars

Thank you.

so good

Such a great translation. Easy to read and interesting. I could have read the entire book in one sitting if I would have had the time.

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Title: Dart

Author: Alice Oswald

Narrator: Alice Oswald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-16

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Over the course of three years, Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in Dart a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea.

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.

Critic Reviews:

"If you never read poetry, make an exception for this." (The Times)

Members Reviews:

A river of language

Just finished this marvel of a book and feel as if I have visited the Dart. Loved the way the different voices told their tales, the way Oswald shifted the work's form to suit the different voices, the different feel of various parts of the river. Beautiful.

The Poetic Voice of a River

I live within a few miles of the Dart, the river that gives its name to Dartmoor, Dartington and Dartmouth, yet to discover Alice Oswald's poetic celebration of this watercourse from source to estuary I had to read the transcript, published in The Hudson Review, of a radio talk by Andrew Motion. The poem won the 2002 T S Eliot Prize shortly after first publication, but otherwise seems to have got off to an unpretentious start in terms of publicity and sales. However, the new (2010) format appears to have got it moving rather better, which can only be a good thing. Besides those who have enjoyed other poems by Alice Oswald, the market for this book should include all literate visitors to Dartmoor and South Devon, those who enjoy the poetry of Ted Hughes (Hughes lived not many miles north and east of the source of the Dart), and the many schools that use Hughes to stimulate imaginative classroom work.

This volume consists of a single poem of alternating verse and prose, and at one point a 25 line silence. Through the voices of a succession of people who live, work, or take recreation on, in or in proximity to the river - even drown in it - plus the voice of the river itself, we follow its 45 mile progress from moor to sea. Some of the less expected points of call are a small hotel, a woollen mill, a milk factory and a sewage works. All are memorable in their way, and we learn much from the voices encountered there, but the open moorland, the steeply descending section of the river inaccessible even to walkers, and the nominally faceless, but deep and timeless expanses of the river estuary ultimately predominate. Besides the river itself, a unifying factor from sea almost to source is provided by the annually migrating salmon, attracting legal and illegal fishing, and providing work for the fisheries warden, a figure who speaks well for himself, but is not well-regarded by the poachers Alice Oswald also coaxes into speaking frankly.

Oswald's two years of fieldwork researching the river and interviewing subjects was clearly well spent, and the poem will in turn provide many diverting hours of research for those who wish to fully understand every line. If, on first encounter, you know what a Kevick is, you already know South Devon rather well. As a help to the uninitiated, it's a pupil or former pupil of the King Edward VI School (now Community College) in Totnes. Talcom (powder) and the Sillies (Isles off SW England) are presumably just mis-prints.