Shoot Me With Flowers Published in Georgetown, Guyana, 1974
Letters for Lettie, and Other Stories Bodley Head, 1979
Dig Away Two-Hole Tim Bodley Head, 1981
Man to Pan Casa de las Américas (Cuba), 1982
I Din Do Nuttin, and Other Poems Bodley Head, 1983
Limbo Dancer in Dark Glasses Greenheart, 1983
Livingroom Black Ink, 1983
Caribbean Poetry Now (contributor) Hodder & Stoughton, 1984
Mangoes and Bullets: Selected and New Poems 1972-84 Pluto Press, 1985
Say It Again, Granny! Bodley Head, 1986
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse (contributor) Penguin, 1986
Lend Me Your Wings Hodder & Stoughton, 1987
Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All (editor) Heinemann, 1989
Go Noah Go! Hodder & Stoughton, 1990
Laughter is an Egg Viking, 1990
The Calypso Alphabet Collins, 1990
Border Country: Poems in Progress (contributor) Wood Wind Publications, 1991
No Hickory, No Dickory, No Dock (with Grace Nichols) Viking, 1991
Grandchildren of Albion (contributor) New Departures, 1992
Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (contributor) Heinemann, 1992
The Emperor's Dan-dan Hodder & Stoughton, 1992
A Stone's Throw from Embankment: The South Bank Collection Royal Festival Hall, 1993
The Great Snakeskin Ginn, 1993
A Caribbean Dozen (co-edited with Grace Nichols) Walker Books, 1994
Granfather's Old Bruk-a-Down Car Bodley Head, 1994
Oriki and the Monster Who Hated Balloons Longman, 1994
The Monster Who Loved Cameras Longman, 1994
The Monster Who Loved Telephones Longman, 1994
The Monster Who Loved Toothbrushes Longman, 1994
Eat a Poem, Wear a Poem Heinemann Young Books, 1995
Poems in My Earphone (editor) Longman, 1995
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (contributor) Macmillan Children's Books, 1996
Get Back, Pimple! Viking, 1996
We Animals Would Like a Word With You Bodley Head, 1996
Why is the Sky? (editor) Faber and Faber, 1996
From the Devil's Pulpit Bloodaxe, 1997
Brer Rabbit: The Great Tug-o-war Bodley Head, 1998
A Child's Year of Stories and Poems (with Michael Rosen and Robert Frost) Viking Children's Books, 2000
Hello New: New Poems for a New Century (editor) Orchard, 2000
Points of View with Professor Peekabo Bodley Head, 2000
Weblines Bloodaxe, 2000
Come Back to Me My Boomerang (with Lydia Monks) Orchard, 2001
Einstein, The Girl Who Hated Maths Hodder Children's Books, 2002
Number Parade: Number Poems from 0-100 (with Jackie Kay, Grace Nichols, Nick Toczek and Mike Rosen) LDA, 2002
Under the Moon and Over the Sea (co-editor with Grace Nichols) Walker Books, 2002
Einstein the Girl That Hated Maths Hodder Children's Books, 2003
Hello H20 Hodder Children's Books, 2003
From Mouth to Mouth (with Grace Nichols; illustrated by Annabel Wright) Walker, 2004
Baby Poems Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2005
Half-Caste Hodder and Stoughton, 2005
Butter-Finger (with Bob Cattell, illustrated by Pam Smy) Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2006
We Brits Bloodaxe, 2006
Wriggle Piggy Toes (with Jenny Bent) Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2006
