Works
- The Portrait and Other Poems (1950)
- The Peaceable Kingdom (1954)
- The Two Freedoms (1958)
- New Poems 1960 (1960) editor with Anthony Cronin and Terence Tiller
- Living Voices (1960)
- The Re-Ordering f the Stones (1961)
- Flash Point An Anthology Of Modern Poetry1964)intro only
'Flower Poems (1964) second edition 1978
- Penguin Modern Poets 7 (1965) with Richard Murphy and Nathaniel Tarn
- Nature with Man (1965)
- Poems New And Selected (1966)
- New and Selected Poems (1966)
- Against Parting by Natan Zach (c. 1967) translator from Hebrew
- Three Poems (1969)
- Poems (1969) editor with Vernon Scannell
- Pergamon Poets VIII (1970) editor with Vernon Scannell
- Amana Grass (1971)
- Killhope Wheel (1971)
- Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War (1972)
- Air That Pricks the Earth (1973)
- Poetry of the Committed Individual: A "Stand" Anthology of Poetry (1973) editor
- The Principle of Water (1974)
- A 'Jarapiri' Poem (1975)
- The Peaceable Kingdom (1975)
- Two Images of Continuing Trouble (19760
- The Little Time-Keeper (1976)
- Jerusalem (1977)
- Into Praising (1978)
- Out of Battle, the Poetry of the Great War (1978)
- The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (1979) editor
- New Poetry 5: An Arts Council Anthology (1979) editor with Peter Redgrove
- The Lapidary Poems (1979)
- Selected Poems (1980)
- The Psalms and their Spoils (1980)
- Autobiographical Stanzas: 'Someone's Narrative' (1983)
- Footsteps on a Downcast Path (1984)
- Gurney: A Play (1985)
- The Ship's Pasture (1986)
- Selected Poems (1980) new edition
- The Penguin Book of First World War Prose (1989) editor with Jon Glover
- The Lens-Breakers (1992)
- Selected Poems (1993)
- Wilfred Owen: The War Poems (1994) editor
- Watersmeet (1994)
- The Life of Metrical & Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry (1997)
- Testament Without Breath (1998)
- Making a Republic (2002)
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