SELECTED PROSE 1968-1978, 1980
· CHANGES, 1980
· SELECTED POEMS 1965-1975, 1980
· TOOME, 1980
· HOLLY, 1981
· SWEENEY PRAISES THE TREES, 1981
· JAMES JOYCE AND MODERN LITERATURE (ed. W.J. McCormack and A. Stead)
· CONTEMPORARY IRIS ART, 1982 (ed. R. Knowles)
· CHECHOV ON SAKHALIN, 1982
· ed.: THE RATTLEBAG, 1982 (with T. Hughes)
· THE NAMES OF THE HARE, 1982
· REMEMBERING MALIBU, 1982
· SWEENEY AND THE SAINT, 1982
· VERSES FOR A FORDHAM COMMENCEMENT, 1982
· A HAZEL STICK FOR CATHERINE ANN, 1983
· SWEENEY ASTARY, 1983
· AN OPEN LETTER, 1983
· AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN, 1983
· HAILSTONES, 1984
· STATION ISLAND, 1984
· FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, 1985
· CLEARANCES, 1986
· TOWARDS A COLLABORATION, 1986
· THE HAW LANTERN, 1987
· THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE, 1988
· AN UPSTAIRS OUTLOOK, 1989 (with M. Longley)
· THE REDRESS OF POETRY, 1990 NEW SELECTED POEMS 1966-87, 1990
· THE TREE CLOCK, 1990
· SEEING THINGS, 1991
· THE CURE AT TROY, 1991 (from Sophocles' play Philoctetes)
· SWEENEY'S FLIGHT, 1992
· ed.: THE MAY ANTHOLOGY OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE POETRY, 1993
· JOY OR NIGHT, 1993
· translation: THE MIDNIGHT VERDICT, 1993 (from B. Merriman and Ovid)
· THE REDRESS OF POETRY, 1995
· CREDITING POETRY: THE NOBEL LECTURE, 1996
· THE SPIRIT LEVEL, 1996 - Whitbread Award 1997
· OPENED GROUND: SELECTED POEMS, 1966-1996, 1998
translation: BEOWULF, 1999 - Whitbread Award in January 2000.