Poetry
- David and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942.
- Now Is Time. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1945.
- The Strait of Anian. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1948.
- Trial of a City and Other Verse. Toronto: Ryerson, 1952.
- Ice Cod Bell or Stone. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1962.
- Near False Creek Mouth. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
- Two Poems. Halifax, 1964.
- Selected Poems: 1940–1966. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
- Memory No Servant, 1968.
- The Poems of Earle Birney: a New Canadian Library selection (New Canadian library original N06), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
- pnomes jukollages & other stunzas, 1969.
- Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970.
- The Bear on the Delhi Road: selected poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1973.
- what's so big about GREEN?. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973.
- The Collected Poems of Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
- Alphabeings and Other Seasyours. London, Ont.: Pikadilly Press, 1976.
- The Rugging and the Moving Times: Poems New and Uncollected 1976. Coatsworth, ON: Black Moss Press, 1976.
- Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
- Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
- The Mammoth Corridors. Okemos, MI.: Stone Press, 1980.
- Copernican Fix. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985.
- Last Makings: Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.
- One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems, Sam Solecki (ed.), 2006.
- The Essential Earle Birney, Jim Johnstone (ed.), 2014.
- January Morning/Downtown Vancouver.
Fiction
- Turvey: a military picaresque. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1949.
- Down the Long Table. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1955.
- Big Bird in the Bush: Selected stories and sketches. Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1978.
Non-fiction
- The Creative Writer, 1966
- The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: The writing and reading of poetry, Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
- Essays on Chaucerian Irony, 1985.
- Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers, 1904–1949, 1989.
- Conversations with Trotsky, Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s: collected Trotskyist writings of Birney and related material published under the direction of Bruce Nesbitt, University of Ottawa press, 2017, ISBN 9780776624631.
Plays
- The Damnation of Vancouver. New Canadian Library original; N 011. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977.
- Words on Waves: selected radio plays of Earle Birney. Kingston, ON: Quarry Press & CBC Enterprises, 1985.
Edited
- Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry, an anthology with introduction and notes. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1953.
- Four parts sand. New Canadian poets. [Ottawa]: Oberon Press, 1972.
Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy University of Toronto.[8]
