In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (poems) (1962)
The Castaway (poems) (1965)
The Gulf (poems) (1969)
Dream On Monkey Mountain: And Other Plays (1970)
Another Life (poems) (1973)
Sea Grapes (poems) (1976)
The Joker of Seville & O Babylon!: Two Plays (1978)
The Star-Apple Kingdom (poems) (1979)
Remembrance and Pantomime: Two Plays (1980)
The Fortunate Traveller (poems) (1981)
Selected Poetry (poems) (1981)
The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott (poems) (1983)
Midsummer (poems) (1984)
Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; a Branch of the Blue Nile (1986)
Collected Poems 1948-1984 (poems) (1986)
The Arkansas Testament (poems) (1987)
Poems, 1965-80 (poems) (1992)
Selected Poems (poems) (1993)
The Bounty (poems) (1997)
Tiepolo's Hound (poems) (2000)
Walker and Ghost Dance: Plays (2002)
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays (2002)
The Prodigal (poems) (2004)
White Egrets (poems) (2010)
Marie Laveau and Steel: Plays (2010)