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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,299,300 ratings — published -800
The Creep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 326 ratings — published
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.51 — 358,979 ratings — published 950
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,435 ratings — published 1375
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,050 ratings — published -750
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,578 ratings — published 1400
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,924 ratings — published -19
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,517 ratings — published 1667
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,151 ratings — published 2011
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 40,407 ratings — published 1998
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 70,403 ratings — published 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 95,362 ratings — published 2014
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,201 ratings — published 1798
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,493 ratings — published 8
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,340 ratings — published -1800
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 177,302 ratings — published 1845
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 144,710 ratings — published 2017
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,287 ratings — published 2015
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,187 ratings — published 1819
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,482 ratings — published 1321
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,924 ratings — published 1986
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,420 ratings — published 2007
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.90 — 39,947 ratings — published 2022
Love, Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 289 ratings — published 2021
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 112,598 ratings — published 2020
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,598 ratings — published 2020
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,787 ratings — published 1572
One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,082 ratings — published 2015
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,401 ratings — published 2014
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,031 ratings — published 2009
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,346 ratings — published 1862
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,483 ratings — published 1160
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,397 ratings — published 2016
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 835 ratings — published 1380
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,483 ratings — published 2014
All the Broken Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,614 ratings — published 2009
Pearl: A New Verse Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 840 ratings — published 1380
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,598 ratings — published 2019
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,351 ratings — published 1985
The Rape of Lucrece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,764 ratings — published 1594
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,030 ratings — published 1270
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,345 ratings — published 1835
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,983 ratings — published 2017
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 81,057 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,613 ratings — published 2013
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,530 ratings — published 1990
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,701 ratings — published 1885
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,415 ratings — published 1812
The Ring and the Book (Broadview Literary Texts)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 430 ratings — published 1869
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 73,765 ratings — published 1831
“So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Backchannel Negotiation
by Stewart Stafford
I slumped out of the tarot parlour,
Drifted past the neon sandwich shop
with more than angel food for thought,
Replaying the revelation on a mind loop.
She said don't worry—which I did,
Everything I had dreamt or wanted
were my riches of decades past
on a distantly hazy New Year’s Eve.
That night, I chatted up a Hollywood starlet—
A shooting star rising across my eyeline—
Beautiful face and eyes, but acned skin,
It was her friend who drew my attention.
I began to leave, but sprang backwards—
A jack-in-the-box popping up for her number.
Marriage and two children flowed from there,
The sated universe hummed, the psychic said.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
by Stewart Stafford
I slumped out of the tarot parlour,
Drifted past the neon sandwich shop
with more than angel food for thought,
Replaying the revelation on a mind loop.
She said don't worry—which I did,
Everything I had dreamt or wanted
were my riches of decades past
on a distantly hazy New Year’s Eve.
That night, I chatted up a Hollywood starlet—
A shooting star rising across my eyeline—
Beautiful face and eyes, but acned skin,
It was her friend who drew my attention.
I began to leave, but sprang backwards—
A jack-in-the-box popping up for her number.
Marriage and two children flowed from there,
The sated universe hummed, the psychic said.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
