Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems, credited to Wilfred Owen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Poems, by Wilfred Owen. Read by volunteer readers. A collection of poems by the English war poet and soldier of the First World War, Wilfred Owen. Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. It stood in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Only five of Owen's poems had been published before his death, one of which was in fragmentary form. Only one week before the end of the war, whilst attempting to traverse a canal, he was shot in the head and killed. (Summary modified from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems
• Author credits: Wilfred Owen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 56:47

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• WWI
• war poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Preface — 1:50
2. 01 - Strange Meeting — 4:18
3. 02 - Greater Love — 1:39
4. 03 - Apologia pro Poemate Meo — 2:23
5. 04 - The Show — 2:08
6. 05 - Mental Cases — 1:57
7. 06 - Parable of the Old Men and the Young — 1:15
8. 07 - Arms and the Boy — 0:52
9. 08 - Anthem for Doomed Youth — 1:22
10. 09 - The Send-off — 1:17
11. 10 - Insensibility — 2:58
12. 11 - Dulce et Decorum est — 2:03
13. 12 - The Sentry — 2:06
14. 13 - The Dead-Beat — 1:47
15. 14 - Exposure — 3:23
16. 15 - Spring Offensive — 3:42
17. 16 - The Chances — 1:46
18. 17 - S. I. W. — 3:17
19. 18 - Futility — 1:24
20. 19 - Smile, Smile, Smile — 2:05
21. 20 - Conscious — 1:21
22. 21 - A Terre — 4:05
23. 22 - Wild with all Regrets — 2:39
24. 23 - Disabled — 3:53

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