Poetry

• Wild Coal. Paris: Club des Étudiants d’Anglais (Sorbonne). (1963)
• En toute candeur. Paris: Mercure de France. (1964)
• The Cold Wind of Dawn. London: Jonathan Cape. (1966)
• The Most Difficult Area. London: Cape Goliard. (1968)
• Scènes d'un monde flottant. Lausanne: Alfred Eibel Editeur. (1976)
• Terre de diamant. Lausanne: Alfred Eibel Editeur. (1977)
• Mahamudra. Paris: Mercure de France. (1979)
• Le Grand Rivage. Paris: Nouveau Commerce. (1980)
• Atlantica. Paris: Grasset. (1986)
• L'anorak du goéland. Rouen: L’Instant Perpétuel. (1986)
• The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1989)
• Handbook for the Diamond Country, Collected Shorter Poems 1960-1990. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1990)
• Les Rives du silence. Paris: Mercure de France. (1998)
• Limites et marges. Paris: Mercure de France. (2000)
• Open World: Collected Poems 1960-2000. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2003)
• Le passage extérieur. Paris: Mercure de France. (2005)

Prose

• Letters from Gourgounel. London: Jonathan Cape. (1966)
• Les Limbes incandescents. Paris: Denoël. (1976)
• Le Visage du vent de l'est. Paris: Les Presses d'aujourd'hui. (1980)
• La Route bleue. Paris: Grasset. (1983)
• Une apocalypse tranquille. Paris: Grasset (1985)
• Travels in the Drifting Dawn. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1989)
• Les Cygnes sauvages. Paris: Grasset. (1990)
• The Blue Road. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing. (1990)
• Pilgrim of the Void. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1992)
• House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2000)
• Across the Territories. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2004)
• La Maison des marées. Paris: Albin Michel. (2005)
• Le Rôdeur des confins. Paris: Albin Michel. (2006)

Essays

• La Figure du dehors. Paris: Grasset. (1982)
• Le Plateau de l’albatros: Introduction à la géopoétique. Paris: Grasset. (1994)
• On Scottish Ground. Edinburgh: Polygon. (1998)
• The Wanderer and His Charts. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2004)
• On the Atlantic Edge. Sandstone. (2006)

Interviews (Collected)

Translations

• Showing the Way, a Hmong Initiation of the Dead. Bangkok, Pandora, 1983.
• André Breton, Selected Poems. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969
• André Breton, Ode to Charles Fourier. London, Cape Goliard Press, 1969.

Recorded poetry

• 1983 Prix Médicis étranger for La Route bleue
• 1985 French Academy's Grand Prix du Rayonnement
• 1987 Prix Alfred de Vigny for Atlantica

• Bowd, Gavin. The Outsiders: Alexander Trocchi and Kenneth White. (1998)
• Bowd, Gavin (editor). Grounding a World: Essays on the Work of Kenneth White. (2005)