We are steadily building a database of Poets for you to listen to and would be interested to hear from you if you have suggestions for others we might include in the site. You can let us know by visiting our Contact Us page. All of the poems on this website have been narrated by Gerald Cox, you can find out more about Gerald on the About Us page.

The menu below helps you find the poet you are looking for alphabetically by surname.

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1949

American writer, poet, editor and literary critic.

Arthur Rimbaud

1854 – 1991

French poet.

Isaac Rosenburg

1890 – 1918

English poet and artist.

Christina Rossetti

1830 – 1894

English poet.

Siegfried Sassoon

1886 – 1967

English war poet, writer and soldier.

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

English poet playwright and actor.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 – 1822

English romantic poet.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 – 1894

Scotish novelist and travel writer.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1837 – 1909

English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.

Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941

Bengali polymath, poet, writer and painter.

Jane Taylor

1783 – 1824

English poet and novelist.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1809 – 1892

Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Dylan Thomas

1914 – 1953

Wlesh poet and writer.

Edward Thomas

1878 – 1917

British poet, essayist, and novelist.