Author

• The Zoologist’s Bath (Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1982), 15 pages, ISBN 978-0906003046
• Birthmarks, the first full book of his poetry (Chatto Windus, 1988), 56 pages, ISBN 978-0701133580
• Penguin New Poets 3: Glyn Maxwell, Mick Imlah, Peter Reading (1994), ISBN 978-0140587425
• Diehard, booklet (Clutag Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0954727598
• The Lost Leader, the second full book of his poetry before his death (Faber and Faber, 2008), ISBN 9780571243075

Editor

• Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope (Imlah wrote the introduction and notes; Penguin Classics, 1999), ISBN 978-0140434040
• The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford), 2000), ISBN 978-0140587111
• A Century of Poems (with Alan Jenkins), Times Supplements Ltd, 2002), 136 pp, ISBN 978-1841220642
• The TLS On Shakespeare (The Times, 2003), 178 pp, ISBN 978-1405838436
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Poems Selected by Mick Imlah (Faber and Faber, 2004), ISBN 978-0571207008
• Edwin Muir Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2008), ISBN 978-0571235476