Principal Publications

Poetry

• The Benefit Forms (Cambridge: Lobby Press, 1978)
• Going Out to Vote (London: The Many Press, 1978)
• Overdrawn Account (London: The Many Press, 1980)
• Anaglypta (London: The Many Press, 1985)
• This Other Life (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1988)
• More About the Weather (London: Robert Jones, 1989)
• Leaf-Viewing (London: Robert Jones, 1992)
• Entertaining Fates (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1992)
• Lost and Found (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1997)
• Via Sauro Variations (Providence RI: Ridgeback Press, 1999)
• Anywhere You Like (Sendai: Pine Wave Press, 2000)
• About Time Too (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001)
• Selected Poems 1976-2001 (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003)
• There are Avenues (Bristol: The Brodie Press, 2006)
• Ghost Characters (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2006)
• The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006 (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2008)
• Ekphrastic Marriage (Reading: Pine Wave Press, 2009)
• English Nettles and Other Poems (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2010)
• The Returning Sky (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2012)
• Like the Living End (Tonbridge, Kent: Worple Press, 2002)
• Buried Music (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2015)
• An Epithalamium (Reading: Pine Wave Press, 2016)
• Collected Poems 1976-2016 (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2017)
• Ravishing Europa (Tonbridge, Kent: Worple Press, 2019)

Poetry in Translation

• After Chardin: Selected Poems 1975-1995 translated by Takao Furukawa (Okayama: 1996)
• L'attaccapanni e altre poesie translated by Peter Robinson and Ornella Trevisan (Bergamo: Moretti e Vitali, 2004)
• Approach to Distance: Selected Poems from Japan translated with an introduction by Miki Iwata (Tokyo: Isobar Press, 2017)

Prose

• Untitled Deeds (Cambridge and Perth: Salt Publishing, 2004)
• Spirits of the Stair: Selected Aphorisms (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2009)
• Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2013)
• The Draft Will (Tokyo: Isobar Press, 2015)
• September in the Rain: A Novel (Newbury: Holland House Books, 2016)

Translations

• Six Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson (Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1981)
• Selected Poems of Vittorio Sereni translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson (London: Anvil Press, 1990)
• When I Was at my Most Beautiful and other poems 1953-1982 by Noriko Ibaragi translated by Peter Robinson and Fumiko Horikawa (Cambridge: Skate Press, 1992)
• The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems (Tonbridge, Kent: Worple Press, 2002)
• The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba translated by Peter Robinson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)
• The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
• Poems by Antonia Pozzi translated by Peter Robinson (Richmond: Oneworld Classics, 2011)

Criticism

• In the Circumstances: about Poems and Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
• Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010)
• The Sound Sense of Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Interviews

• Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006)

As Editor

• With All the Views: Collected Poems of Adrian Stokes (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1981; Redding Ridge, C.T.: Black Swan Books, 1981)
• Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work (Milton Keynes and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1985)
• Liverpool Accents: Seven Poets and a City (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996)
• The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Studies edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000)
• News for the Ear: A Homage to Roy Fisher edited by Robert Sheppard and Peter Robinson (Exeter: Stride Publications, 2000)
• Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2005)
• An Unofficial Roy Fisher (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010)
• Bernard Spencer: Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose edited by Peter Robinson (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
• Reading Poetry: An Anthology (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2011)
• A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens (Reading: Two Rivers Press with the English Association, 2012)
• Bernard Spencer: Essays on his Poetry & Life (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2012)
• The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
• The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poetry edited by Adrian Blamires and Peter Robinson (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2014)
• Roy Fisher, An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013 (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2014)
• Thomas Hardy, Places and Other Poems chosen and with an afterword by Peter Robinson (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2014)
• F.T. Prince, Memoirs of Caravaggio (London: Perdika Press, 2015)
• The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Others edited by John Pilling and Peter Robinson (Reading: Two Rivers Press, 2015)
• Henry James Poems: A Keepsake of Samples (London: The British Library: 2016)
• Roy Fisher, Slakki: New and Neglected Poems edited by Peter Robinson (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2016)
• Stanley Spencer Poems An Anthology edited by Carolyn Leder, Jane Draycott amd Peter Robinson (Reading:Two Rivers Press 2017)
• A Furnace: Roy Fisher edited and with an introduction by Peter Robinson (Chicago: Flood Editions, 2018)

Secondary

• The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson edited by Adam Piette and Katy Price (Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2007)
• Peter Robinson at 60 edited by Adam Piette (Blackbox Manifold no. 9, 2012)
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