AuthorAndrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
NarratorRachel Sternberg
Duration17m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Poetry
Key StageKS2
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
From trickling stream to violent flood, from sparkling ice to acid raid, and from the bath tub to the open sea, these poems look at the many contrasting faces that water takes in the world.
Author: Tyler Knott Gregson
Author Tyler Knott Gregson
Narrator The Author
Duration 56m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Chasers Of The Light, written and read by Tyler Knott Gregson. I would love to say that you make me weak at the knees, but to be quite upfront and completely truthful, you make my body forget it has knees at all. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photogra...
View BookAuthor: Fiona Sampson
Author Fiona Sampson
Narrator Fiona Sampson
Duration 1h 9m
Rough Music is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This collection, read here by the author, is full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics...
View BookAuthor: By Benedict Flynn Translated
Author By Benedict Flynn Translated
Narrator Crawford Logan
Duration 2h 24m
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 A.D., Beowulf tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorises the Scyldings of Hrothgar's Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As a result he has to face her enraged mother. Beowulf dies after a battle against a fierce...
View BookAuthor: Leonard Cohen
Author Leonard Cohen
Narrator Leonard Cohen
Duration 3h 12m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Book of Longing written and read by Leonard Cohen. Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and 2006, when this book was first published. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and dept...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Bart Wolffe
Duration 44m
A collection of classic literature that feature erotic dreams including The Eve of St. Agnes, Erotica Romana, and A Last Confession.
View BookThe Elements In Poetry: Poems About Air
Author: Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
Author Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 23m
The poems in this audiobook explore air in many different guises, from breathing to hurricanes, thunder and lightning to migrations and the first historic hot air balloon flight. They cannot fail to make listeners young and old think anew about the amazing world that we live in.
View BookOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Author: T. S. Eliot
Author T. S. Eliot
Narrator Miranda Richardson
Duration 48m
The naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey - All of them s...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 2m
A delightful collection from around the British Isles including Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, Leisure by W. H Davis and To Autumn by John Keats. Featuring classic recordings by Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
View BookAuthor: Ian Sansom
Author Ian Sansom
Narrator Ian Sansom
Duration 9h 44m
This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This a book about a poet - W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scap...
View BookThe Elements In Poetry: Poems About Fire
Author: Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
Author Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
Narrator John Albasiny
Duration 26m
The poems in this audiobook explore fire in many different guises, from the hot sun to fiery volcanoes, from the legend of Icarus to the Great Fire of London, and from fireworks in the dark night sky to the bright festival candles of Divali. They cannot fail to make listeners young and old think anew about the amazing world that we live in.
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