Poetry —
Translations —
Fiction —
As Editor —
Music Theatre
List of publications
Poetry
Shortlisted for the Griffin Prize (Canada)
Selected Poems 1969-2005
Faber & Faber, 2007
Forward Prize winner 2005
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award 2005
Legion
Faber & Faber, 2005
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes 2002
Marriage
Faber & Faber, 2002
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes 1998
A Bird's Idea of Flight
Faber & Faber, 1998
The Potted Priest
Limited edition: Four Seasons Press/Snickersnee, 1997

News from the Front
Oxford University Press, 1993
Storybook Hero
Limited Edition: Sycamore Press, 1992

Gawain: A Libretto
Universal Edition

Selected Poems
Oxford University Press, 1989
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize winner 1977
Awarded Arts Council Bursary
Dreams of the Dead
Oxford University Press, 1984
Mister Punch
Oxford University Press, 1977
After Dark
Oxford University Press, 1973
Truce
Limited Edition: Sycamore Press, 1973

Awarded Arts Council Bursary
A Violent Country
Oxford University Press, 1969
Tonight's Lover
The Review, 1968

Translations
Sprinting from the Graveyard
Versions of poems by Goran Simic
Oxford University Press, 1997
The Sorrow of Sarajevo
Limited Edition: Cargo Press, 1996

Fiction
From an Inland Sea
Viking/Penguin, 1985
The Wormhole
Work in progress...
As Editor
Raising the Iron
Poems for the Palace Theatre Watford
Cargo Press, 2004
Another Round at the Pillars
A Festschrift for Ian Hamilton
Cargo Press, 1999
Savremena Britanska Poezija
Sarajevo Writers' Union
with Mario Susko
The Corridor
Music by Harrison Birtwistle; in preparation
Crime Fiction
Music by Huw Watkins; in preparation
The Minotaur
Music by Harrison Birtwistle
The Hoop of the World
Music by Alan Lawrence; score in preparation
When She Died — libretto for television opera
Music by Jonathan Dove
The Ring Dance of the Nazarene
Music by Harrison Birtwistle
The Woman and the Hare
Music by Harrison Birtwistle
Gawain
Music by Harrison Birtwistle
Serenade the Silkie
Music by Julian Grant