- I is a Long-Memoried Woman, London: Karnak House, 1983 to 1984
- The Fat Black Woman's Poems, London: Virago Press, 1984
- A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets (Barbara Burford, Gabriela Pearse, Grace Nichols, Jackie Kay), London: Sheba, 1985
- Whole of a Morning Sky (novel), London: Virago Press, 1986
- Over the River, 1986
- Hurricane Hits England, 1987
- Come into my Tropical Garden (poems), 1988
- Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (poems), 1989
- Sunris (poems), London: Virago, 1996
- Startling the Flying Fish, 2006
- Picasso, I Want My Face Back, Bloodaxe Books, 2009
- I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems, Bloodaxe, 2010
- Island Man
- The Insomnia Poems, 2017
- Passport to Here and There, Bloodaxe, 2020
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