Publications
- Mama Dot (Chatto & Windus), 1985
- New British Poetry 1968-88 (editor with Gillian Allnut) (Paladin), 1988
- Airy Hall (Chatto & Windus), 1989
- British Subjects (Bloodaxe), 1993
- The Longest Memory (Chatto & Windus), 1994
- A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death (play) (Methuen), 1995
- Dear Future (Chatto & Windus), 1996
- Feeding the Ghosts (Chatto & Windus), 1997
- Bill of Rights (Chatto & Windus), 1998
- Bloodlines (Chatto & Windus), 2000
- An English Sampler: New and Selected Poems (Chatto & Windus), 2001
- Bethany Bettany (Chatto & Windus), 2003
- Continental Shelf (Carcanet, UK), 2009
- The Rose of Toulouse (Carcanet), 2013
- Children of Paradise (HarperCollins), 2014