Career
Zoom! (Bloodaxe, 1989), Xanadu (1992),
Kid (1992),
Book of Matches (1993),
The Dead Sea Poems (1995),
CloudCuckooLand (1997),
Killing Time. (1999),
Selected Poems (2001),
Universal Home Doctor (2002),
Travelling Songs (2002),
The Shout: Selected Poems (2005),
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (2006),
The Not Dead (2008),
Out of the Blue (2008),
Seeing Stars (2010), Homer's Odyssey (2006), Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (2007),
The Death of King Arthur (2011), Human Geography (Smith/Doorstop Books, 1986),
Distance Between Stars (Wide Skirt, 1987), The Walking Horses (Slow Dancer, 1988),
Around Robinson (Slow Dancer, 1991),
The Anaesthetist (Alton; Clarion, Illustrated by Velerii Mishin, 1994),
Five Eleven Ninety Nine (Clarion Publishing, Illustrated by Toni Goffe, 1995),
Machinery of Grace: A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (Poetry Society, 2005), Contributor
The North Star (University of Aberdeen, 2006)-Contributor
The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2010), Little Green Man (2001),
The White Stuff (2004), Penguin Modern Poets BK.5 (with Sean O'Brien and Tony Harrison, 1995),
The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (with Robert Crawford, 1998),
Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems (1999),
Ted Hughes Poems: Selected by Simon Armitage (2000),
The Poetry of Birds (with Tim Dee, 2009), Moon Country (with Glyn Maxwell,1996),
Eclipse (1997),
All Points North (1998),
Mister Heracles After Euripides (2000),
King Arthur in the East Riding (Pocket Penguins,2005),
Jerusalem (2005),
The Twilight Readings (2008),
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist (2008),