Poetry

• Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press, 1965
• Sugar Daddy, Oxford University Press, 1970
• Some Sweet Day, Oxford University Press, 1975
• Love-Life (with drawings by Jessica Gwynne), André Deutsch, 1979- winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
• Writing Home, Oxford University Press, 1985
• Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 1989
• Self-Portrait with a Slide, Oxford University Press, 1990
• Dock Leaves, Faber and Faber, 1994
• Penguin Modern Poets 11, (Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams) Penguin, 1997
• Billy's Rain, Faber and Faber, 1999
• Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse, (editor) Faber and Faber, 2001
• Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, 2002
• Dear Room, Faber and Faber 2006
• West End Final, Faber and Faber 2009

Other

• All the Time in the World, Ross, 1966
• No Particular Place to Go, Cape, 1981
• Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet, Faber and Faber, 1995
• Some RB and Black Pop, Greville Press, 1998

• 1966 Eric Gregory Award
• 1971 Cholmondeley Award
• 1975 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Some Sweet Day
• 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize for Billy's Rain
• 2004 Queen's Medal for Poetry
• 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist for Dear Room
• 2007 Costa Book Award Shortlist for Dear Room