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 Hours, 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 Ben Jonson and Jalalludin Rumi as well as themes on The Female Poet, Hell, Victorian Poetry 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 & reaching the parts that other arts can’t. Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes. Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.

This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.

Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey.

The Poetry Hour – Volume 18

Edmund Spenser – An Introduction

Sonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser

Shepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund Spenser

The Poetry of Evenings

The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour Bridges

Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot

A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge

A Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind

Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell

Sunset by HP Lovecraft

How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson

The Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5

Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith

Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale

The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan

On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley

A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Introduction

On Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Troy Town by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Willow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Willow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An Introduction

Sudden Shower by John Clare

There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson

The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore

The Storm by George Herbert

Rainy Night by Alfred Lichtenstein

Victorian Poetry – An Introduction

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

A Match by Algernon Swinburne

Maternity by Alice Meynell

Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti

The Toys by Coventry Patmore

The Message of the March Wind by William Morris

Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt