Poetry
| North Carriageway | Carcanet | 1976 |
| Third Person | Carcanet | 1978 |
| Half Moon Bay | Carcanet | 1993 |
| Dinosaur Point | Smith Doorstop | 2000 |
| Voting for Spring | Smith Doorstop | 2010 |
| You Should've Seen Us | Smith Doorstop | 2012 |
| Out Of Deep Time | Wayleave Press | 2016 |
Verse Drama
| Herod | Royal National Theatre | 1979 |
| Never | West Yorkshire Playhouse | 1996 |
| Cook's Children | Theatre in the Mill, Bradford | 2000 |
On Creative Writing
| Writing In Action | Routledge | 1996 |
| The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook | 2006 | |
Essays and Articles
On science:
'The Quantum Uncertainty of the Narrator'
Poetry Review Vol 85 No 1, Spring 1995
On poetry:
'Poetry in the Hands of the Receivers – Tony Harrison's 'v';
Class and Language in 1980s Britain' in Britishness and Cultural Studies: Continuity and Change in Narrating the Nation, published by SLASK, Katowice, Poland, edited by K. Knauer and S. Murray, 2000.
'The Jewel You Lost: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters' and 'Liberating Mercury; the poems of Edwin Morgan' in Contemporary Poems, Some Critical Approaches, edited by P. Sansom and L. Jeffries, Smith Doorstop Books, 2000
Essays on contemporary poets, including Ted Hughes, Roy Fisher, Jeremy Hooker, George Szirtes, in The North , edited by Peter Sansom.
Poems, reviews and articles also published in Poetry Review, Stand, Outposts, Critical Quarterly, PN Review, The North, Magma, Lines Review, Verse, Ambit, Poetry Wales , Writing in Education, Dreamcatcher, Smiths Knoll, Word, Poetry and Audience, The Compass and Eborakon.
Work in progress: an essay - ‘Hierarchies of Experience. Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes: a retrospective’
Two paintings based on Fra Angelico’s Annunciation. To be installed in the Church of St Mary The Virgin, Cratfield, Suffolk.