As author:
Critical Writing
2007 Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker:Essays on Poetry,
Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.
1989 Writers from Africa: A Readers' Guide, London, The
Book Trust.
Poetry
1999 Elsewhere: New and Selected Poems, Leeds,Peepal Tree
Press.
1989 Lugard’s Bridge, Bridgend, Seren Books.
1986 Zinder, Bridgend, Poetry Wales Press.
1985 The Perfume of Decay, Hatch End, Poet & Printer.
1982 Mekin Foolishness, Diego Martin,Trinidad, The New
Voices.
1979 Specimens, Knotting, The Sceptre Press.
1977 Room Service, Falmouth, Falmouth School of Art
Publications.
1975 Beasts, Walton-on-Thames, Outposts Publications
As editor:
Critical Writing
2006 Poems by Martin Carter, (co-ed with Ian McDonald)
Oxford, Macmillan Caribbean.
2001 Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English: Strategies of
Mediation, (ed.) Birmingham, CWAS African Studies
Series.
2000 ‘All Are Involved’: The Art of Martin Carter,
(ed.)Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.
1995 The Art of Kamau Brathwaite, (ed.)Bridgend, Seren
Books.
1995 The Pressures of the Text: Orality, texts and the
telling of tales, (ed.) Birmingham, CWAS African
Studies Series.
1991 The Art of Derek Walcott, (ed.)Bridgend, Seren
Books.
Literary Anthologies
2012 The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writers on
West Indian Cricket, (co-ed with Ian McDonald) Leeds,
Peepal Tree Press.
2005 The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, (co-ed
with Mark McWatt) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
1999 The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (co-ed.
with John Wickham), Oxford, OUP.
1997 African New Voices: an anthology of contemporary
prose and poetry, (ed.) Harlow, Longman.
1995 Caribbean New Voices: an anthology of contemporary
prose and poetry, (ed.) Harlow, Longman.
1992 The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry, (co-ed.
with Ian McDonald), Oxford,Heinemann.
1992 Caribbean Poetry Now,(Revised, 2nd edition)
(ed.)Sevenoaks, Edward Arnold.
1990 Caribbean New Wave: the contemporary short story,
(ed.) Oxford, Heinemann.
1990 Voiceprint: oral and related poetries of the
Caribbean, (co-ed. with Gordon Rohlehr and Mervyn
Morris), Harlow, Longman.
1984 Caribbean Poetry Now, (ed.) Sevenoaks, Hodder & Stoughton
Selected contributions to other books
Introductions and Afterwords
2009 ‘Stanley Graves in conversation’: Afterword to The Poems
Man, by Stanley Graves, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.
2006 ‘The Poems Man’: Introduction to Poems by Martin Carter,
eds. Brown & McDonald, London, Macmillan, 2005. p. 7-17.
2004 ‘Introduction’ to Words Need Love Too by Kamau Brathwaite,
Cambridge, Salt Publishing, p. xi-xxvi.
2002 ‘Words to refute cultures that wear boots: the poetry of Stanley
Greaves’ Afterword to Horizons by Stanley Greaves, Leeds,
Peepal Tree Press, p.137-143.
1996 ‘A witness in my time and place: the poetry of Don Burness’, in
The Bardie Clan by Don Burness, New York, Troubador
Press, p.xi-xvii.
1995 ‘Introduction’ to A Job for the Hangman by Roi Kwabena,
Coventry, Raka Publications, p.5-8.
1988 'Introduction' to Zaynab Alkali's novel The Stillborn, London,
Longman. p.vii-xxi
1988 ‘Introduction’ to Ismith Khan's novel The Jumbie Bird, London,
Longman, p.iii xvi.
Chapters and Essays in edited books
2009 ‘Things Fall Apart: poetry as counter-commentary, perhaps’ in
When Things Came Together: Studies on Chinua Achebe,
D. Burness, I Mata & V Hartnack (Eds.), Lisbon, Faculty of
Letters, University of Lisbon, p.70-74.
2008 ‘Martin Carter: The Poems Man’ in Black Literature Criticism:
classic and emerging authors since 1950, edited by Jelena
O. Krstovic, Farmington Hills, MI, USA. Gale.
2004. ‘Sun Poem - The Rainbow Sign’ in The Critical Response to
Kamau Braithwaite, E Williams (Editor), Westport,
Greenwood Press, p.137-146.
2004 "Incalculable Flotsam": Frank Collymore salvaging poetry from
the sea in Remembering the Sea: an introduction to Frank A.
Collymore, P.W. Nanton (Editor), Bridgetown, Central Bank
of Barbados, p.54-76.
2003 ‘The Apprentice: 25 poems, Epitaph for the Young, Poems and
In a Green Night’ (In Derek Walcott (Blooms Modern
Critical Views Series), H Bloom (Editor), Philadelphia,
Chelsea House Publishers, p.79-99.
2003 ‘Still Daring the Beast: Niyi Osundare and contemporary
Nigerian Poetry’ in The People's Poet: Emerging
perspectives on Niyi Osundare, A-R Na'Allah (Editor),
Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press, 97-114.
1995 ‘Between me and thee is a great gulf fixed’: The Crusoe
Presence in Walcott’s early poetry’ in Robinson Crusoe:
Myths and Metamorphoses, eds. Lieve Spaas and Brian
Stimpson, Basingstoke, Macmillan, p.210-224
Essays and articles in journals and magazines
2006 ‘The Fifth Figure: Jean Binta Breeze in conversation’ in Wasafiri
Vol.21., no.3, p.43-49
2006 ‘The truth of craft: the poetry of Martin Carter’ in The
Caribbean Review of Books , New Vol.1., no.7, Feb.2006. p.28-31.
2006 ‘Amryl Johnson: her poetry mapped the space between two
cultures’ in Dialogue: a journal for cultural literacy, vol.1. no.2. p.73-75.
2005 ‘Another Music: Poetry in West Africa’, Poetry Wales, 40, no.3,
p.45-58.
2003 ‘Nothing about us at all: Olive Senior and West Indian Poetry’ in
Poetry Wales, 38, no.4. p.22-25.
2002 ‘A Caribbean Literary Life: a profile of Ian McDonald’ in
Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, no.155, p.42-48.
2002 ‘Straight is not the way: the poetry of Mervyn Morris’ in
Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, no.152, p.62-68.
2002 ‘The pleaded grace of song – Wole Soyinka and Nigerian Poetry’,
in Poetry Review, vol. 92, no.2. p.99-103.
2001 ‘Between World and Word: the poetry of Niyi Osundare’ in
Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, no.147, p.72-78.
2000 ‘George Lamming in conversation with Stewart Brown’,
in Kyk-over-al, no.49/50, p.140-157
1999 ‘Incest and Assassination: judging the Guyana Prize’ in Planet:
the Welsh Internationalist, no.133, p.25-29
1998 ‘Barbados @ the crossroads.com: calypso in Barbados’ in
Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, no.127, p.13-20.