Totalitarian regimes have the citizens and poets they deserve, those who accept the bayonets upon which order is based and who, by their silence or useless chatter, make themselves the accomplices of those who rule. Peter Horn' is not one of these: he has chosen to be on the side of the oppressed, on the side of the future, of the dream of a multiracial society, in short, on the side of freedom.,

• Voices from the Gallows Trees. (Poems) Ophir (1969)
• Walking through our sleep. (Poems) Ravan Press (1974)
• Silence in Jail. (Poems: banned). Scribe Press (1979)
• The Civil War Cantos. (Poems: banned) Scribe Press (1987)
• Poems 1964 -1990. Johannesburg: Ravan (1991)
• An Axe in the Ice. Poems. Johannesburg: COSAW Publishing House 1992
• Derrière le vernis du soleil, poèmes 1964-1989. Choisis et traduit de l’anglais sud-africain par Jacques Alavarez-Péreyre. Dessins de Nils Burwitz. Paris: europePoesie (1993)
• The Rivers that Connect us to the Past. Survivors. Poems. Belville: Mayibuye Press 1996
• Poems. Translated into Bangla by Aminur Rahman. Montreal, Dhaka, London: SACAC, KATHAK 2003

• My Voice is Under control Now. Short Stories. Cape Town: Kwela 1999;

• Heinrich von Kleists Erzählungen. Eine Einführung. (Sprache+Literatur+Didaktik) (Scriptor Taschenbuch S 141). Scriptor (1978).
• Kleist-Chronik. Athenäum (1980) 140 S.
• Writing my Reading. Essays on Literary Politics in South Africa. Amsterdam/Atlanta : Rodopi Press 1994 [recte: 1995] (= Cross/Cultures - Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures in English 15).

• Sevry, Jean. 'Peter Horn: Introducing a South African Poet.' (Interview with P Horn, August 1992) Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16 (l): p. 104-113, 1993
• Berold, Robert.. 'Interview.' (Interview with P Horn, including discussion of poetry in the 'new' South Africa) New Coin 31 (l): p. 31-41, 1995.
• See also: Literature of South Africa and Peter Horn's home page: [1]