Showing results by publisher "Penguin Audio" in Themes & Styles
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth...
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Beautifully translated & read; poor sound quality
- By D on 26-07-16
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Series: Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
- Classics · Collections · Epic
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Series: The Divine Comedy, Book 1-3
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
- Death, Grief & Loss · Epic · European
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The Inferno of Dante
- A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
- By: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky - translator
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book...
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Not the best version of this book.
- By Zoot on 18-02-17
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The Inferno of Dante
- A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück
- Series: The Divine Comedy, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-07-14
- Language: English
- Classics · Death, Grief & Loss · Epic
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The Poems of Catullus
- A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
- By: Gaius Valerius Catullus, Stephanie McCarter - translator
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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From an award-winning translator, a new dual-language translation of poems by Catullus, the Roman poet and punk, the lover and hater, the hedonist and wretch, famous for his contradictions, on friendship, sympathy, love and sex, and notably, diatribes against enemies. In his short life, the...
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The Poems of Catullus
- A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 14-07-26
- Language: English
- Epic · Poetry · Themes & Styles
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Khosrow and Shirin
- By: Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis, Dick Davis - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Mozhan Navabi, Dick Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis A Penguin Classic Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about...
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Khosrow and Shirin
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Mozhan Navabi, Dick Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
- Epic · Love · Middle Eastern
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Surge
- By: Jay Bernard
- Narrated by: Jay Bernard
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- European · Poetry · Themes & Styles
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Vita Nuova
- By: Dante Alighieri, Virginia Jewiss, Virginia Jewiss - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s Vita Nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno A Penguin Classic Dante was only nine years old when he first met young...
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Misleadingly described: English ONLY
- By EEL on 24-02-23
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Vita Nuova
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
- Classics · Art & Literature · Italy
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Love Poems for Anxious People
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit...
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Side splitting humour.
- By JOHN DARKER on 20-09-24
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Love Poems for Anxious People
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
- Comedy · Poetry · Relationships
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Swell
- By: Maria Ferguson
- Narrated by: Maria Ferguson
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Tender, direct and winningly witty, Swell distils the poet's complex feelings surrounding family and domesticity, exploring the contending weight and levity felt as she contemplates a thrillingly unfamiliar new chapter. Ferguson is a poet as alert to the absurd as to the shattering, and these are large-hearted poems, full of life and thought. Together, they invite the listener to join them in a search for self-acceptance, for freedom from shame, and for a path to stability in increasingly uncertain times.
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Swell
- Narrated by: Maria Ferguson
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-01-25
- Language: English
- Poetry · Themes & Styles
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I Love You, Call Me Back
- Poems
- By: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxiety, and longing—and finding peace, and even joy, in unexpected places Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks, has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers...
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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
- Mental Health · Death, Grief & Loss · Poetry
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Minx
- By: Karen Downs-Barton
- Narrated by: Karen Downs-Barton
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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MINX reveals the vibrant but precarious world of a multi-racial Romani family: a world of grandfathers brewing moonshine in marrows, basement reggae parties, and a mother struggling to support her two daughters on the proceeds of her shadowy profession. Their powerful bond helps the sisters survive when they’re taken into care, in a children’s home that forcibly separates them.
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Minx
- Narrated by: Karen Downs-Barton
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
- European · Poetry · Themes & Styles
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Coleshill
- By: Fiona Sampson
- Narrated by: Fiona Sampson
- Length: 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. The poems hum with an...
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Coleshill
- Narrated by: Fiona Sampson
- Length: 38 mins
- Release date: 23-05-13
- Language: English
- European · Poetry · Themes & Styles
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Love Poems for the Office
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spirit of his Love Poems collections, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney returns with a hilarious new collection of poetry--for office life. With the same brilliant wit and biting realism that made Love Poems for...
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A brilliant book.
- By JOHN DARKER on 18-09-24
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Love Poems for the Office
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
- Comedy · Poetry · Relationships
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Love Poems for People with Children
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems...
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Love Poems for People with Children
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
- Parenting & Families · Poetry · Relationships
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Flickering
- By: Pattiann Rogers, John A. Rogers
- Narrated by: Pattiann Rogers, John A. Rogers
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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“[Rogers’] poems bring an openness of spirit and an almost scientific curiosity to the world at her feet, cataloging unexpected connections everywhere she looks.” —New York Times Book Review A new collection from a poet whose “celebrations of science and approachable yet profound...
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Flickering
- Narrated by: Pattiann Rogers, John A. Rogers
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
- Poetry · Themes & Styles · United States
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Golden Ax
- By: Rio Cortez
- Narrated by: Rio Cortez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award “Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future...
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Golden Ax
- Narrated by: Rio Cortez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 30-08-22
- Language: English
- African American · Poetry · Themes & Styles
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Earthborn
- By: Carl Dennis
- Narrated by: Carl Dennis
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely new collection that sounds themes about the fragility of life and our duty to respect the planet in a time of climate change, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work “begins in delight and ends in wisdom” (Carrie Fountain) The work of Carl Dennis has won praise for its...
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Earthborn
- Narrated by: Carl Dennis
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
- Poetry · Themes & Styles · United States
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God's Trombones
- Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
- By: James Weldon Johnson
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones...
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God's Trombones
- Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-05-09
- Language: English
- African American · Classics · Poetry
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Borderline Fortune
- By: Teresa K. Miller, Carol Muske-Dukes
- Narrated by: Teresa K. Miller
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry Series–winning poet who “refus[es] the mind’s limits” (Carol Muske-Dukes) Borderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance—of unresolved intergenerational...
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Borderline Fortune
- Narrated by: Teresa K. Miller
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
- Poetry · Themes & Styles
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Lean Against This Late Hour
- By: Garous Abdolmalekian, Idra Novey - translator, Ahmad Nadalizadeh - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation A vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English...
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Lean Against This Late Hour
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
- Death, Grief & Loss · Middle Eastern · Poetry
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