Full length Poetry collections
Pamphlets and shorter publications
Dedicated to you but you weren’t listening, London: Writers Forum, 1979
Ship of Fools Pamphlets and Artist’s Books
Mespotamia (with images by Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1987
Other
Avant Garters - zimzalla avant object no. 35 A pair of garters with monostichs, wrapped in gold, sealed in wax, 2016.
Anthology Appearances include
Magazine and Journal publications
(1972-2023)
Platform, Doris, Alembic, Palantir, Great Works, Words Worth, Oasis, Figs, Kudos , Angel Exhaust, Molly Bloom, Reality Studios, The Artful Reporter, Rock Drill, PN Review, New Statesman, Ninth Decade, Reality Studios, Staple Diet, Slow Dancer, Archeus, First Offense, Raddle Moon, RWC, Fragmente, Responses, Critical Quarterly, Memes, Scratch, A4 Anonymous, :that:, Ramraid Extraordinaire, Grille, Object Permanence, Talus 8, AND, West Coast Line, Blue Cage, Mirage #4/Periodi(ical)#47, Talisman, Tears in the Fence, Boxkite, A.bacus, Vertical Images, Stride, The Gig, Counter-Hegemony, Shearsman, Lynx, Jacket, Terrible Work, Fire, Emergency Rations, cul de qui, Neon Highway, Pores, Call, Citizen 32, Poetry Salzburg Review, Softblow, Shadowtrain, Intercapillary Space, Exultations and Difficulties, Free Verse, The David Jones Journal, Pages, Popularity Contest, Skald, Agenda, Stimulus͢͢͢-Respond, New Writing, Veer Off, Parameter, Short Fiction, Litter, Signals, English, Poetry Wales, Erbacce, Paraxis, Adirondack Review, Ekleksographia, Onedit, Eyewear, Sunfish, Roundyhouse, VLAK, Form and Fontanelles, Stand, The Claudius App, Damn the Caesars, The Wolf, Sugar Mule, Blackbox Manifold, Otoliths, International Times, Blazevox, Card Alpha, Noon, The Literateur, 3am Magazine, Poetry at Sangam, Adjacent Pineapple, A Restricted View from Under the Hedge, The Guardian, Cumulus, Smithereens, Ambush Review, Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism, Queen Mab’s Tea House, BlazeVox, Anthropocene, Lune, Tentacular, Train, The Firminist, Some Roast Poet, The Abandoned Playground, The Broken Spine, The Café Review, A Glimpse Of, M58, The Mechanics’ Institute (online), The Lincoln Review, Mercurius, Pamenar Press, Junction Box, Overground Underground, Bier Bua, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time.
Critical Books
Far Language: Poetics and Linguistically Innovative Poetry 1978-1997, Exeter: Stride Research Documents, 1999; second printing 2002
Edited Volumes
Floating Capital: New Poets from London, with Clarke, Adrian, Elmwood, Connecticut: Potes and Poets, 1991
I have published numerous book chapters and referred articles such as ‘Poetics and Ethics: The Saying and the Said in the Linguistically Innovative Poetry of Tom Raworth’, Critical Survey, Vol 14, Number 2, 2002, pp. 75-88, and ‘The British Poetry Revival, 1960-1978’, in Görtschacher and Malcolm, eds. A Companion to British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015, Hoboken and Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2021, pp. 235-243. (See full bibliography on this site.)
Edited Magazines and Journals
1 1983, tape cassette poetry magazine, 1 - 3, 1974-77.
2 Rock Drill, 1 - 5, 1980-85.
3 Pages, 1 - 400+ , 1987-1997 (first and second series); 2005- (third series as a blogzine).
4 Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry , 2009- (stepped down December 2014)
Note: there is an extended and extensive bibliography on the last page of this site.
- Daylight Robbery, Exeter: Stride, 1990
- The Flashlight Sonata, Exeter: Stride,1993
- Empty Diaries, Exeter: Stride, 1998
- The Lores, London: Reality Street, 2003
- Tin Pan Arcadia, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2004
- Hymns to the God in which my Typewriter Believes, Exeter: Stride, 2006
- Complete Twentieth Century Blues, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2008
- Warrant Error, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2009
- Berlin Bursts, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011
- A Translated Man, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2013
- Words Out of Time, Newton-le-Willows: Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2015
- History or Sleep: Selected Poems, Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2015
- Unfinish, London: Veer Publications, 2016
- Twitters for a Lark (with Others), Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2017
- The English Strain, Swindon: Shearsman Books, 2021
- Bad Idea (The English Strain Book Two), Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2021
Pamphlets and shorter publications
Dedicated to you but you weren’t listening, London: Writers Forum, 1979
- Returns, London:Textures,1985
- Private Number, London: Northern Lights Publishers, 1986
- Letter from the Blackstock Road, London: Oasis Books, 1988
- Internal Exile, Southampton: Torque Press,1988
- Codes and Diodes (with Bob Cobbing), London: Writers Forum, 1991
- Fox Spotlights, Cheltenham: The Short Run Press, 1995
- Free Fists (with Patricia Farrell), London: Writers Forum, 1996
- Neutral Drums (with Patricia Farrell), London: Writers Forum, 1999
- Blatent Blather/Virulent Whoops (with Bob Cobbing), London: Writers Forum, 2001
- The Anti-Orpheus: a notebook, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2004. (Also available as an e-book at www.shearsman. com)
- Risk Assessment (with Rupert Loydell) Damaged Goods, 2006
- The Given, Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2010
- The Only Life, Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2011
- The Drop, Hunstanton: Oystercatcher Press, 2016
- Petrarch 3: a derivative derive, Crater 36, 2017
- The Working Week: Devoran: Smallminded Books, 2017
- Hap: Understudies of Thomas Wyatt's Petrarch, Newton-le-Willows: Knives Forks and Spoons, 2018
- Micro Event Space, New Mills: Red Ceilings Press, 2019
- Collaborations (with Bob Cobbing): Codes and Diodes and Blatent Blather/Virulent Whoops: Veer Books, 2021
Ship of Fools Pamphlets and Artist’s Books
Mespotamia (with images by Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1987
- Looking North (with images by Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1987
- The Cannibal Club (with Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1990
- Killing Boxes, London: Ship of Fools, London, 1992
- Wayne Pratt: Watering the Cactus – the deathbed edition, 1999 Ship of Fools, London, 1992, revised 1999
- Logos on Kimonos (with images by Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1992 revised ed. 1998
- Seven (with images by Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1992
- Icarus - Having Fallen (with Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1992
- Transit Depots/Empty Diaries (with John Seed [text] and Patricia Farrell [images]), London: Ship of Fools, 1993
- net/(k)not/-work(s), London: Ship of Fools, 1993
- Fucking Time (with images by Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1994
- The Book of British Soil (with Patricia Farrell), London: Ship of Fools, 1995
- Soleà for Lorca, Liverpool: Ship of Fools, 1998
- Birthday Boy, A Present for Lee Harwood, ed. with Patricia Farrell, anthology containing poetry by John Ashbery, art by Andrzej Jackowski, and others, 1999
- Depleted Uranium, Liverpool: Ship of Fools, 2001
- 31st April or The Age of Irony, Liverpool, Ship of Fools, 2001
- The End of the Twentieth Century, Liverpool: Ship of Fools, 2002
- The Blickensderfer Punch (with Patricia Farrell), Liverpool: Ship of Fools, 2002
- Turns (with Scott Thurston), Liverpool: Ship of Fools/The Radiator, 2003
- Looking Thru’ A Hole in the Wall (with Patricia Farrell), Liverpool: Ship of Fools, 2010.
- Liverpool Hugs and Kisses (with Robert Hampson), Liverpool: Ship of Fools/Pushtika Press, 2015.
- Fandango Loops (with Patricia Farrell), Liverpool, Ship of Fools, 2015.
Other
Avant Garters - zimzalla avant object no. 35 A pair of garters with monostichs, wrapped in gold, sealed in wax, 2016.
Anthology Appearances include
- The New British Poetry, eds., Allnutt, Gillian; D’Aguiar, Fred; Edwards, Ken; and Mottram, Eric, London: Paladin, 1988, pp. 336-9
- Floating Capital: New Poets from London, ed. Clarke, Adrian, and myself, Elmwood, Connecticut: Potes and Poets Press, USA, 1991, pp. 102-10
- Verbi Visi Voco: a performance of poetry, ed. Griffiths, Bill and Cobbing, Bob, London: Writers Forum, 1992, pp. 225-9
- New British and Irish Writing, West Coat Line Number 17 (29/2) ed. Quartermain, 1995, pp. 85-7, 112
- Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970, ed. Caddel, Richard, and Quartermain, Peter, Wesleyan University Press, 1999, pp. 238-42
- Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, ed. Tuma, Keith, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 866-9
- ‘from September 12’, ed. Swift, Todd, e-book Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, at www.nthposition.com/babylonburing911.php
- ‘Small Voice’, in eds. Allen, Tim, and Duncan Andrew, Don’t Start Me Talking, Cambridge: Salt, 2007, pp. 335-6
- Six sonnets in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Reality Street: Hastings, 2008.
- ‘A Voice Without’, ‘Not Another Poem’, in ed. Rupert Loydell, Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh:Manifestos and Unmanifestos, Salt: Cambridge, 2009
- 'from "The Given" in ed. David Miller, The Alchemist's Mind. Reality Street: Hastings , 2012.
- 'Portrait and Portals' in ed. Philip Davenport, The Dark Would (various media) 2013.
- 'In Unadopted Space' in eds. Holland and Topping, Sculpted, North West Poets, 2013.
- Poems about music in eds. Loydell and Ferguson, Yesterday's Music Today, Newton-le-Willows, Knives Forks and Spoons, 2015
- A short story ('Arrivals') in ed. Nicholas Royle, Best British Short Stories 2016, Cromer: Salt, 2016.
- Click Clack: produced on the occasion of the Captain Beefheart Weekend, Liverpool. JARG, November 2017
- NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems, ed. Philip Rowland, Tokyo and London: Isobar Press, 2019
- Smart Devices: 52 Poems for The Guardian, ed. Carol Rumens, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2019
- The Penguin Book of Oulipo, ed. Philip Terry, London: Penguin Books, 2019.
- Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems ed. Kevin Gardner and John Greening, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Magazine and Journal publications
(1972-2023)
Platform, Doris, Alembic, Palantir, Great Works, Words Worth, Oasis, Figs, Kudos , Angel Exhaust, Molly Bloom, Reality Studios, The Artful Reporter, Rock Drill, PN Review, New Statesman, Ninth Decade, Reality Studios, Staple Diet, Slow Dancer, Archeus, First Offense, Raddle Moon, RWC, Fragmente, Responses, Critical Quarterly, Memes, Scratch, A4 Anonymous, :that:, Ramraid Extraordinaire, Grille, Object Permanence, Talus 8, AND, West Coast Line, Blue Cage, Mirage #4/Periodi(ical)#47, Talisman, Tears in the Fence, Boxkite, A.bacus, Vertical Images, Stride, The Gig, Counter-Hegemony, Shearsman, Lynx, Jacket, Terrible Work, Fire, Emergency Rations, cul de qui, Neon Highway, Pores, Call, Citizen 32, Poetry Salzburg Review, Softblow, Shadowtrain, Intercapillary Space, Exultations and Difficulties, Free Verse, The David Jones Journal, Pages, Popularity Contest, Skald, Agenda, Stimulus͢͢͢-Respond, New Writing, Veer Off, Parameter, Short Fiction, Litter, Signals, English, Poetry Wales, Erbacce, Paraxis, Adirondack Review, Ekleksographia, Onedit, Eyewear, Sunfish, Roundyhouse, VLAK, Form and Fontanelles, Stand, The Claudius App, Damn the Caesars, The Wolf, Sugar Mule, Blackbox Manifold, Otoliths, International Times, Blazevox, Card Alpha, Noon, The Literateur, 3am Magazine, Poetry at Sangam, Adjacent Pineapple, A Restricted View from Under the Hedge, The Guardian, Cumulus, Smithereens, Ambush Review, Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism, Queen Mab’s Tea House, BlazeVox, Anthropocene, Lune, Tentacular, Train, The Firminist, Some Roast Poet, The Abandoned Playground, The Broken Spine, The Café Review, A Glimpse Of, M58, The Mechanics’ Institute (online), The Lincoln Review, Mercurius, Pamenar Press, Junction Box, Overground Underground, Bier Bua, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time.
Critical Books
Far Language: Poetics and Linguistically Innovative Poetry 1978-1997, Exeter: Stride Research Documents, 1999; second printing 2002
- The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents 1950-2000, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005
- Iain Sinclair, Writers and Their Work, Plymouth: Northcote House, 2007
- When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011
- The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry, New York: Palgrave, 2016
Edited Volumes
Floating Capital: New Poets from London, with Clarke, Adrian, Elmwood, Connecticut: Potes and Poets, 1991
- News for the Ear: a homage to Roy Fisher, with Robinson, Peter, Exeter: Stride 2000
- Salt Companion to Lee Harwood, Cambridge Salt: 2007
- The Door at Taldir: The Selected Poems of Paul Evans, Exeter: Shearsman, 2009
- Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (with James Byrne), Todmorden/Ormskirk: Arc/EHU, 2017
- New Collected Poems, Lee Harwood (with Kelvin Corcoran), Swindon: Shearsman, 2023
I have published numerous book chapters and referred articles such as ‘Poetics and Ethics: The Saying and the Said in the Linguistically Innovative Poetry of Tom Raworth’, Critical Survey, Vol 14, Number 2, 2002, pp. 75-88, and ‘The British Poetry Revival, 1960-1978’, in Görtschacher and Malcolm, eds. A Companion to British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015, Hoboken and Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2021, pp. 235-243. (See full bibliography on this site.)
Edited Magazines and Journals
1 1983, tape cassette poetry magazine, 1 - 3, 1974-77.
2 Rock Drill, 1 - 5, 1980-85.
3 Pages, 1 - 400+ , 1987-1997 (first and second series); 2005- (third series as a blogzine).
4 Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry , 2009- (stepped down December 2014)
Note: there is an extended and extensive bibliography on the last page of this site.