Death of a Naturalist (poems) (1966)
Room to Rhyme: An Anthology of Poems (poems) (1968)
A Lough Neagh Sequence (poems) (1969)
Boy Leading His Father to Confession (poems) (1970)
Door into the Dark (poems) (1973)
Wintering Out (poems) (1973)
North (poems) (1975)
Bog Poems (poems) (1975)
Stations (poems) (1975)
In Their Element: A Selection of Poems (poems) (1977)
Christmas Eve (poems) (1978)
Field Work (poems) (1979)
Gravities: A Collection of Poems And Drawings (poems) (1979)
A Family Album (poems) (1979)
Hedge School: Sonnets from Glanmore (poems) (1979)
Poems 1965-1975 (poems) (1980)
Preoccupations: Selected Prose- 1968-1978 (1980)
Selected Poems 1965 - 1975 (poems) (1980)
Sweeney and the Saint (poems) (1982)
Verses for a Fordham Commencement (poems) (1982)
A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann (poems) (1983)
Mandeville's Travellers: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (poems) (1984)
Station Island (poems) (1984)
Buile Suibhne (poems) (1984)
Sweeney Astray (poems) (1984)
Hailstones (poems) (1984)
The Haw Lantern (poems) (1987)
Dangerous Pavements (poems) (1987)
A Rich Hour (poems) (1988)
Valedictory Verses: Composed for the Carysfort Graduation Exercises, 1988 (poems) (1988)
The Fire Gaze (poems) (1989)
The Settle Bed (poems) (1989)
An Upstairs Outlook: An Evening of Poetry (poems) (1989)
New Selected Poems, 1966-87 (poems) (1990)
Selected Poems 1966-1987 (poems) (1990)
The Earth House (poems) (1990)
The Tree Clock (poems) (1990)
The Cure At Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (poems) (1991)
Seeing Things (poems) (1991)
Sweeney's Flight (poems) (1992)
Midnight Verdict (poems) (1993)
May Anthology of Oxford (poems) (1993)
Sweeney Praises the Trees (poems) (1993)
The Art of Seamus Heaney (poems) (1994)
Sweet Killough: Let Go Your Anchor (poems) (1994)
The Spirit Level (poems) (1996)
The School Bag (poems) (1997)
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (poems) (1998)
Collected Poems (poems) (1999)
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (poems) (2000)
Electric Light (poems) (2001)
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (poems) (2002)
Anything Can Happen: A Poem And Essay (poems) (2004)
The Burial At Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (poems) (2004)
District and Circle (poems) (2006)

The Development of Sacramentality of Marriage: from Anselm of the Laon to Thomas Aquinas (1963)
The Fire I' the Flint: Reflections On the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1975)
Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address And an Elegy (1978)
Makings of a Music: Reflections On the Poetry of Wordsworth And Yeats (1980)
Ireland's Field Day: Field Day Theatre Company (1985)
An Interview with Seamus Heaney (1986)
Response to the Irish Arts Symposium (1986)
The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 (1988)
Yeats: A Fifty Year Salute (1989) (see W B Yeats)
The Redress of Poetry (1990)
Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas (1992) (see Dylan Thomas)
Ireland: The Living Landscape (1992)
Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture (1996)
Conor Fallon (1996)
Homage to Robert Frost (1996)
Dimitri Hadzi (1996)
Commencement Address: The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill : May 12, 1996 (1996)
Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry (2000)
Something to Protect: An Article From: Parnassus : Poetry in Review (2001)
Talking with Poets (2002)
The Debateable Land: Ireland's Border Counties (2002)

Seamus Heaney (1982) by Blake Morrison