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Alibi
The Many Press,
1985
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Summer Snow
London:
Hutchinson,
1990
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Angel
Tarset:
Bloodaxe Books,
1993
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In and Out of the Mind
Greek Images of the Tragic Self
Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press,
1994
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Fusewire
London:
Chatto & Windus,
1996
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Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
(Poetry)
London:
Chatto & Windus,
1998
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I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll
Faber & Faber,
2000
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Voodoo Shop
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2002
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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem
or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2004
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The Soho Leopard
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2004
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The Poem and the Journey
60 Poems for the Journey of Life
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2008
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Darwin: A Life in Poems
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2009
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Silent Letters of the Alphabet
Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
Bloodaxe Books,
2010
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Sir Walter Ralegh
(Poet to Poet edition)
Poems selected by Ruth Padel
Faber & Faber,
2010
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Where the Serpent Lives
Novel
London:
Little, Brown,
2010
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The Mara Crossing
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2012
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Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2014
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Tidings
A Christmas Journey
London:
Chatto & Windus,
2016
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Tigers In Red Weather
A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
London:
Walker & Co,
2006