Eleven Poems (poetry) 1965
Death of a Naturalist (poetry) 1966
Room to Rhyme [with Dairo Hammond and Michael Longley] (poetry) 1968
Door into the Dark (poetry) 1969
A Lough Neagh Sequence (poetry) 1969
Boy Driving His Father to Confession (poetry) 1970
Night Drive (poetry) 1970
Land (poetry) 1971
Servant Boy (poetry) 1971
Wintering Out (poetry) 1972
Boy Poems (poetry) 1975
Fire i' the Flint: Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (criticism) 1975
North (poetry) 1975
Stations (poetry) 1975
In Their Element: A Selection of Poems [with Derek Mahon] (poetry) 1977
After Summer (poetry) 1978
The Making of a Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats (criticism) 1978
Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and Elegy (nonfiction) 1978
Field Work (poetry) 1979
Hedge School: Sonnets from Glanmore (poetry) 1979
Ugolino (poetry) 1979
Poems: 1965–1975 (poetry) 1980; also published as Selected Poems 1965–1975, 1980
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978 (essays) 1980
Sweeney Praises the Trees (poetry) 1981
An Open Letter (poetry) 1983
Hailstones (poetry) 1984
Station Island (poetry) 1984
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish [translator and adaptor] (poetry and prose) 1984
Verses for a Fordham Commencement (poetry) 1984
From the Republic of Conscience (poetry) 1985
The Haw Lantern (poetry) 1987
The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and Other Critical Writings (essays) 1988; also published as The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978–1987, 1988
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (drama) 1990
New Selected Poems: 1966–1987 (poetry) 1990
The Place of Writing (prose) 1990
The Tree Clock (poetry) 1990
Seeing Things (poetry) 1991
The Redress of Poetry (essays) 1995