Eleven Poems (Leeds: Northern House, 1964).
The Pity (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967).
Academic Board Poems (Exeter: Peeks Press, 1968)
Arc Pamphlets 4 & 5 (Gillingham: Arc Publications, 1969)
Work, distances/poems (Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972).
The Wild Rose (Memphis, TN: Stinktree Press, 1973)
Hawk Wolf (Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, 1974)
Wasichi (New York: Aloes Books/Spanner, 1975)
Tristan Crazy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1978).
Tales of the Hunter (Boston, MA: Night House, 1979)
What I’m Doing Now (London: Oasis Books, 1980)
Fox Running (London: Rolling Moss Press, 1980; Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1981).
Between the Dancers, with John Christie (Guildford, Circle Press, 1980)
Grainy pictures of the rain (Arkansas: Truedog Press, 1981)
Abel Baker Charlie Delta Epic Sonnets (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1981).
Burned Books (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1981).
The Poet Reclining: Selected Poems 1962-1980 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1982).
Terra (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1986).
Wormwood (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1987).
The heart, the border (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1990).
Tender to the Queen of Spain (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1993).
Wild Root (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1998).
Wire through the Heart (Budapest: Ister, 2001)
Shed: Poems 1980-2001 (Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2002).
You Again: Last Poems & Other Words (Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2004).
Collected Poems (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2018).
Frontwards in a Backwards Movie (Todmorden: Arc, 1975).
Anus Mundi (Ware, MA: Four Zoas Press, 1976)
Island called Henry the Navigator (Oak Park, IL: Cat’s Pajamas, 1976)
the joined-up writing (London: X Press, 1980)
The Queen’s Dreams: a short story (Harry Novak Books, 1986).
A Book of Chinese Whispers (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1987).
Inside Time, with Dave Wait (London: Harrap, 1989; Mandarin, 1990).
Berlin: Coming in from the Cold (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990; Penguin, 1991).
Klaonica: poems for Bosnia, with Judi Benson (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1993; with The Independent).
Beyond Bedlam, with Matthew Sweeney (London: Anvil Press, 1997).
Sean O’Brien: ‘Ken Smith: I Am Always Lost in It’, in The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British & Irish Poetry (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1998).
Stan Smith: ‘Salvaged from the Ruins: Ken Smith’s Constellations’, in British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art, ed. Gary Day & Brian Docherty (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997).
Colin Raw: ‘“Best, Ken”: Letters and an Interview’, in Ken Smith, You Again: Last Words & Other Words (Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2004). This consists of a full-length essay, a series of long extracts from letters by Ken Smith and an interview, and is the most comprehensive critical resource on Ken Smith’s work. It is followed by second interview with Ken Smith, by David Crystal and Tim Cumming.