Selected Bibliography: Edited Works, Literary Criticism, and Translations

The Portrait and Other Poems. Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1950. pamphlet.

The Peaceable Kingdom. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.

The Two Freedoms. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. NY: Macmillan, 1958.

The Re-Ordering of the Stones. London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. 56pp.

Flower Poems. Leeds: Univ. of Leeds, School of English, 1964. pamphlet.

Nature with Man. London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. 56pp.

Poems, New and Selected. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. 79pp.

Natan Zach, Against Parting, trans. Jon Silkin. Northern House Pamphlet Poets, 1967. pamphlet. 16pp.

Three Poems. Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1969. pamphlet.

Vernon Watkins and Jon Silkin: Poems. London: Longmans, Green, 1969.

Vernon Scannell and Jon Silkin: Pergamon Poets VIII. Oxford: Pergamon, 1970.

Amana Grass. London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. 77pp.

Killhope Wheel. Ashington: The Mid-Northumberland Arts Group, 1971. North Now Pamphlet #3.

Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Rpt. by Routledge, 1987.

Air That Pricks the Earth. Rushden: Sceptre Press, 1973. pamphlet.

Poetry of the Committed Individual: A "Stand" Anthology of Poetry. London: Gollancz, 1973.

The Principle of Water. Cheadle: Carcanet Press, 1974. 94pp.

The Little Time-Keeper. 1976. NY: Norton, 1977. 75pp.

Flower Poems. 2nd. ed. Newcastle: Northern House Poets #27, 1978. pamphlet. 20pp.

Into Praising. Poem by Jon Silkin; Photographs by Edwin Easydorchik. Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1978.

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry. London: Penguin, 1979. 2nd ed., 1981.

Selected Poems. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

The Psalms and their Spoils. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. 74pp.

Gurney: A Play Tyne & Wear: Iron Press Drama Editions, 1985. 108pp.

The Ship's Pasture. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. 93pp.

"The First Twenty-Four Years," Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series. Vol. 5. 1987. 243-265.

Selected Poems. New ed. London and NY: Routledge, 1988. 198pp.

The Penguin Book of First World War Prose. Ed. with Jon Glover. London: Penguin, 1989.

The Lens-Breakers. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. 89pp.

Selected Poems. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. 200pp.

Watersmeet. Whitley Bay: The Bay Press, 1994. pamphlet. 23pp.

Wilfred Owen: The War Poems. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.

The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry. London and NY: Macmillans & St. Martin's, 1997.

Testament Without Breath. Images by Robert McNab. Cornwall: Cargo Press, 1998. pamphlet. 36pp.

Making a Republic. Manchester: Carcanet / Northern House, 2002.

Complete Poems, ed. Jon Glover and Kathryn Jenner. Manchester: Carcanet / Northern House, 2015.