Books & Chapbooks
- Stone (a collection of poems). Varney, Ontario: Rock Press, 1993.
- Breathing space. Toronto: Anansi, 1974. [fiction]
Poems in Periodicals
- "Fox." Canadian Forum 34 (1955): 251.
- "The Clown washes his face." Canadian Forum 35 (1956): 255.
- "London Dance." Fiddlehead 26 (1955): 18.
- "Owl." Fiddlehead 28 (1956): 5.
- "Pike." Fiddlehead 27 (1956): 19. Reprinted in Spirits and Distances. Ed. Lillian
- Morrison. Binghampton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, 1965: 102.
- "Significant Form." Fiddlehead 23-24 (1955): 7.
- "Swan's Way." Fiddlehead 23-24 (1955): 7.
- "Flight of Girls." Delta 20 (1963):18.
- "In the Beginning." Fiddlehead 54 (1962): 14-15.
- "Last Summer." Canadian Forum 43 (1963): 45.
- "Only war poem." Canadian Forum 43 (1963): 36.
- "Poem," later entitled "Dear Lives Lost." Fiddlehead 54 (1962): 14.
- "Pop Singer of Sorts." Delta 20 (1963): 19.
- "Snake." Fiddlehead 54 (1962): 14.
- "Wilma Rudolph." Delta 20 (1963): 18.
- "Picture of the Aged Santayana." Canadian Forum 44 (1964): 142. Reprinted in Bulletin of the Santayana Society 16 (1998): 20.
- "Present company excepted." Fiddlehead 63 (1965): 58-61
- "Paris." Fiddlehead 68 (1966): 32-33.
- "Prewar summer," later entitled "Summer Resort." Fiddlehead 68 (1966): 32.
- "Race Question," later entitled "E. K." Fiddlehead 68 (1966): 33.
- "Exile." Canadian Forum 47 (1967): 75.
- "Atlantic." Fiddlehead 74 (1967): 80.
- "Certain Times." Fiddlehead 105 (1975): 15.
- "Encore." Canadian Forum 58 (1978): 39.
- "First snow." Fiddlehead 126 (1980): 111.
- "From the Window" Fiddlehead 126 (1980): 110.
- "Kiss." Canadian Forum 59 (1980): 13.
- "Smetana wrote." Fiddlehead 126 (1980): 110.
- "Snow drift." Canadian Forum 59 (1980): 13.
- "Stamp." Canadian Forum 59 (1980): 13.
- "Winter landscape." Fiddlehead 126 (1980): 111.
Other
- "Notes on Hampshire's Thought and Action." The British Journal of Aesthetics 4 Jan. (1964): 40-46.
- "Art and Value." The British Journal of Aesthetics 6 April (1966): 123-34.
- "For Artistic Reasons." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 25.3 (1967): 255-58.
- "Margot Ariss: words and things." Arts/Canadian Ag 26 (1969): 14-16.
- "Free of Influence." Scientia Jan. Feb. (1971 ): 1-10.
- "Herb Ariss, the Public Library and Art Museum, London." Arts/Canadian F-Mr 28 (1971): 55- 56.v
- "Every year at this time" (story). Journal of Canadian Fiction 28-29 (1980): 31-34.
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