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Layli and Majnun
- By: Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Serena Manteghi, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a 12th-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness.
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Absolutely superb!
- By Dennis Sommers on 14-02-21
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Layli and Majnun
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Serena Manteghi, Sean Rohani
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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All the Good Things You Deserve
- By: Elaine Feeney
- Narrated by: Elaine Feeney
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation on the experience and aftershocks of a sexual assault - written as a series of unflinching cantos - to poems of love, place and new beginnings, Feeney's voice is strong and clear, challenging and confessional, rooted in her west coast of Ireland heritage while speaking to and with women everywhere.
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All the Good Things You Deserve
- Narrated by: Elaine Feeney
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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I Love You, Call Me Back
- Poems
- By: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks, has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now, she dives into challenging and universal territory: grief over a relationship’s end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious diagnosis.
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I Love You, Call Me Back
- Poems
- Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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Dearly
- Poems
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
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Dearly
- Poems
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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The How
- Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
- By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
- Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of people around the world: through her books of poetry and memoir bone and The Terrible, through her powerful writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King and through her always-illuminating Instagram posts. In The How, Yrsa gently takes listeners by the hand, encouraging them to join her as she explores how we can remove our filters, and see and feel more of who we really are behind the preconceived notions of propriety and manners we've accumulated with age.
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The How
- Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
- Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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The Rumi Prescription
- How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life
- By: Melody Moezzi
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock. With the help of her father, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi's poetry, she immerses herself in this rich body of work, and discovers a 13th-century prescription for modern life.
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Personal and powerful
- By m on 26-10-21
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The Rumi Prescription
- How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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Remember Love
- Words for Tender Times
- By: Cleo Wade
- Narrated by: Cleo Wade
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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Cleo Wade is that friend you dream of having - the one you could phone in your darkest hours, confident she'd say the perfect thing, because no matter what you're going through, she's going to meet you with warmth and understanding. She's never shied away from her own setbacks and heartbreaks; she's embraced them and distilled them into pearls of essential truth and sincere advice which can help get you through, can make you see that tomorrow still lies straight ahead. If only you had such a friend. And now you do.
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Remember Love
- Words for Tender Times
- Narrated by: Cleo Wade
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold
- Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist
- By: William Shakespeare, James Anthony, Stephen Fry - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Rediscover the greatest love poetry ever written. 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.
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Original & translation in same chapter hard toskip
- By Holly on 06-09-20
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold
- Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-11-18
- Language: English
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Verbal Riddim
- Dub Poetry
- By: Various, Oku Onuora, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, and others
- Narrated by: Seroca Davis, Gavin Dunn
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection spans forty years, as dub became a powerful cultural and creative force. The poets included in this collection are: Oku Onuora, Mikey Smith, Mutabaruka, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, James Berry, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Lillian Allen and Afua Cooper.
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Excellent
- By mr m dann on 20-02-24
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Verbal Riddim
- Dub Poetry
- Narrated by: Seroca Davis, Gavin Dunn
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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Life of the Party
- If a Girl Screams, and Other Poems
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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A dazzling collection of raw and explosive poems from a thrilling new feminist voice. In this multi-faceted collection of odes, anecdotes, sonnets and prose, Olivia Gatwood weaves together the trials and triumphs of growing up and explores the many ways that fear and violence can be internalised in a woman's psyche. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today’s world and the challenge of briefly being both.
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Incredible.
- By Lola Bergen on 15-10-19
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Life of the Party
- If a Girl Screams, and Other Poems
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- By: Warsan Shire
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.
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Excellent, touching short poems about lived experiences.
- By Nathan Kapochina on 16-03-23
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-03-22
- Language: English
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Manorism
- By: Yomi Sode
- Narrated by: Yomi Sode
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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Impassioned, insightful, electric, Manorism is a poetic examination of the lives of Black British men and boys: propped up and hemmed in by contemporary masculinity, deepened by family, misrepresented in the media, and complicated by the riches, and the costs, of belonging and inheritance. It is also an exploration of the differences of impunity afforded to white and Black people, and to white and Black artists.
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Read it and listen to it.
- By Shepherd Manyika on 01-12-22
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Thick with Trouble
- Penguin Poets
- By: Amber McBride
- Narrated by: Amber McBride
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has crafted a haunting collection of poems that reckon with the force and complexity of Black womanhood.
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Thick with Trouble
- Penguin Poets
- Narrated by: Amber McBride
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
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Surge
- By: Jay Bernard
- Narrated by: Jay Bernard
- Length: 59 mins
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Jay Bernard’s powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive, tracing a line between two significant events in recent British history: the New Cross Massacre of 1981 in which 13 young black people were killed in a house fire - and the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. The collection stems from research undertaken about the New Cross Fire during a 2016 residency at the George Padmore Institute.
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superb, unmissable, heartbreaking, revolutionary
- By Enduro Girl on 07-11-22
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Surge
- Narrated by: Jay Bernard
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 20-06-19
- Language: English
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Call Us What We Carry
- By: Amanda Gorman
- Narrated by: Amanda Gorman
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Including 'The Hill We Climb', the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energising and unforgettable new voice in poetry.
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Call Us What We Carry
- Narrated by: Amanda Gorman
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-12-21
- Language: English
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Black Girl, Call Home
- By: Jasmine Mans
- Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself - and us - home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America - and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
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Amazing stories
- By Hadidja on 05-02-23
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Black Girl, Call Home
- Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-03-21
- Language: English
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- By: Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, and others
- Length: 6 hrs
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis. From Rabe'eh in the 10th century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the 21st, the women poets found in The Mirror of My Heart write across the millennium on such universal topics as marriage, children, political climate, death, and emancipation, recreating life from hundreds of years ago that is strikingly similar to our own today and giving insight into their experiences as women.
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poignant, profound and deeply moving~☆
- By David Adams on 23-02-21
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, Serena Manteghi
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Chasers of the Light
- By: Tyler Knott Gregson
- Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson
- Length: 56 mins
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One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for two dollars, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything. He fell in love. Three years and almost 1,000 poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter Series: a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method.
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Chasers of the Light
- Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Penguin Classics
- By: Bernard O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Composed during the 14th century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve.
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A great story well narrated
- By John on 21-02-22
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-05-20
- Language: English
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Vita Nuova [New Life]
- Edizione inglese con testo italiano a fronte [English Edition with Italian Text Opposite]
- By: Dante Alighieri, Virginia Jewiss - translator
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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The Vita nuova is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems interspersed with his own prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to conceal the true object of his devotion by the use of "screen-loves", to his overwhelming grief at her death, ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven.
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Misleadingly described: English ONLY
- By EEL on 24-02-23
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Vita Nuova [New Life]
- Edizione inglese con testo italiano a fronte [English Edition with Italian Text Opposite]
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
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