The Dreaming Swimmer: Non-fiction 1987-1992

The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus

Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

A Point of View

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1855 & 1892) + Old Age Echoes + Uncollected and Rejected Poems

The Crystal Bucket

The Flowers of Evil

The Lusiads

Exploring J.r.r. Tolkien's "the Hobbit"

Sentenced to Life

Shakespeare's Dark Lady: The Lost Story of Aemilia Bassano Lanyer

The Desiderata of Happiness

Nefertiti in the Flak Tower

Letters to a Young Poet

Always Unreliable: Memoirs