Zoom (poems) (1989)
Kid (poems) (1992)
Book of Matches (poems) (1993)
Dead Sea Poems (poems) (1995)
Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland (poems) (1996) (with Glyn Maxwell)
Cloudcuckooland (poems) (1997)
Killing Time (poems) (1999)
Selected Poems (poems) (2001)
The Poetry Quartets (poems) (2001) (with Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Glyn Maxwell)
Travelling Songs (poems) (2002)
Universal Home Doctor (poems) (2002)
The Shout: Selected Poems (poems) (2005)
Leeds Stories 2 (2005) (with Joolz Denby, Janet Fisher, Sophie Hannah, Char March and Andrea Semple)
Jerusalem (poems) (2006)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (poems) (2007)
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid (poems) (2007)
The Not Dead (poems) (2008)
Out of the Blue (poems) (2008)

The Poetry of Birds (2009) (with Tim Dee)