Poetry: Main Collections
- 1966: Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber
- 1969: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber
- 1972: Wintering Out, Faber & Faber
- 1975: North, Faber & Faber
- 1979: Field Work, Faber & Faber
- 1984: Station Island, Faber & Faber
- 1987: The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber
- 1991: Seeing Things, Faber & Faber
- 1996: The Spirit Level, Faber & Faber
- 2001: Electric Light, Faber & Faber
- 2006: District and Circle, Faber & Faber
- 2010: Human Chain, Faber & Faber
Poetry: Selected Editions
- 1980: Selected Poems 1965–1975, Faber & Faber
- 1990: New Selected Poems 1966–1987, Faber & Faber
- 1998: Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996, Faber & Faber
- 2014: New Selected Poems 1988–2013, Faber & Faber
- 2018: 100 Poems, Faber & Faber
Prose: Main Collections
- 1980: Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978, Faber & Faber
- 1988: The Government of the Tongue, Faber & Faber
- 1995: The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures, Faber & Faber
Prose: Selected Editions
- 2001: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971–2001, Faber & Faber
Plays
- 1990: The Cure at Troy: A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Field Day
- 2004: The Burial at Thebes: A version of Sophocles' Antigone, Faber & Faber
Translations
- 1983: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
- 1992: Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer), Faber & Faber
- 1993: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press
- 1995: Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies by Jan Kochanowski, translated with Stanisław Barańczak, Faber & Faber
- 1999: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Faber & Faber
- 1999: Diary of One Who Vanished, a song cycle by Leoš Janáček of poems by Ozef Kalda, Faber & Faber
- 2009: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, Faber & Faber
- 2016: Aeneid: Book VI, Faber & Faber[120]
- 2022: The Translations, Faber & Faber
Limited Editions and Booklets (poetry, prose, and translations)
- 1965: Eleven Poems, Queen's University
- 1968: The Island People, BBC
- 1968: Room to Rhyme, Arts Council N.I.
- 1969: A Lough Neagh Sequence, Phoenix
- 1970: Night Drive, Gilbertson
- 1970: A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press
- 1973: Explorations, BBC
- 1975: Stations, Ulsterman Publications
- 1975: Bog Poems, Rainbow Press
- 1975: The Fire i' the Flint, Oxford University Press
- 1976: Four Poems, Crannog Press
- 1977: Glanmore Sonnets, Editions Monika Beck
- 1977: In Their Element, Arts Council N.I.
- 1978: Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and an Elegy, Faber & Faber
- 1978: The Makings of a Music, University of Liverpool
- 1978: After Summer, Gallery Press
- 1979: Hedge School, Janus Press
- 1979: Ugolino, Carpenter Press
- 1979: Gravities, Charlotte Press
- 1979: A Family Album, Byron Press
- 1980: Toome, National College of Art and Design
- 1981: Sweeney Praises the Trees, Henry Pearson
- 1982: A Personal Selection, Ulster Museum
- 1982: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club
- 1983: An Open Letter, Field Day
- 1983: Among Schoolchildren, Queen's University
- 1984: Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press
- 1984: Hailstones, Gallery Press
- 1985: From the Republic of Conscience, Amnesty International
- 1985: Place and Displacement, Dove Cottage
- 1985: Towards a Collaboration, Arts Council N.I.
- 1986: Clearances, Cornamona Press
- 1988: Readings in Contemporary Poetry, DIA Art Foundation
- 1988: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University
- 1988: The Dark Wood, Colin Smythe
- 1989: An Upstairs Outlook, Linen Hall Library
- 1989: The Place of Writing, Emory University
- 1990: The Tree Clock, Linen Hall Library
- 1991: Squarings, Hieroglyph Editions
- 1992: Dylan the Durable, Bennington College
- 1992: The Gravel Walks, Lenoir Rhyne College
- 1992: The Golden Bough, Bonnefant Press
- 1993: Keeping Going, Bow and Arrow Press
- 1993: Joy or Night, University of Swansea
- 1994: Extending the Alphabet, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- 1994: Speranza in Reading, University of Tasmania
- 1995: Oscar Wilde Dedication, Westminster Abbey
- 1995: Charles Montgomery Monteith, All Souls College
- 1995: Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture, Gallery Press
- 1996: Commencement Address, UNC Chapel Hill
- 1997: Poet to Blacksmith, Pim Witteveen
- 1997: An After Dinner Speech, Atlantic Foundation
- 1998: Audenesque, Maeght
- 1999: The Light of the Leaves, Bonnefant Press
- 1999: Ballynahinch Lake, Sonzogni
- 2001: Something to Write Home About, Flying Fox
- 2001: Towers, Trees, Terrors, Università degli Studi di Urbino
- 2002: The Whole Thing: on the Good of Poetry, The Recorder
- 2002: Hope and History, Rhodes University
- 2002: A Keen for the Coins, Lenoir Rhyne College
- 2002: Hallaig, Sorley MacLean Trust
- 2002: Arion, a poem by Alexander Pushkin, translated from Russian, with a note by Olga Carlisle, Arion Press
- 2003: Eclogues in Extremis, Royal Irish Academy
- 2003: Squarings, Arion Press
- 2004: Anything can Happen, Town House Publishers
- 2004: Room to Rhyme, University of Dundee
- 2004: The Testament of Cresseid, Enitharmon Press
- 2004: Columcille The Scribe, The Royal Irish Academy
- 2005: A Tribute to Michael McLaverty, Linen Hall Library
- 2005: The Door Stands Open, Irish Writers Centre
- 2005: A Shiver, Clutag Press
- 2007: The Riverbank Field, Gallery Press
- 2008: Articulations, Royal Irish Academy
- 2008: One on a Side, Robert Frost Foundation
- 2009: Spelling It Out, Gallery Press
- 2010: Writer & Righter, Irish Human Rights Commission
- 2012: Stone From Delphi, Arion Press
- 2013: The Last Walk, Gallery Press
- 2019: My Yeats, Yeats Society Sligo
Spoken word
- 2009: Collected Poems (audio recording by Heaney), RTÉ with the Lannan Foundation
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