Poems (1971)
Lend Me Your Wings (1987)
Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All (1989)
Go Noah Go! (1990)
The Calypso Alphabet (1990)
Laughter is an Egg (1990)
No Hickory, No Dickory, No Dock (1991)
Border Country: Poems in Progress (1991)
The Emperor's Dan-dan(1992)
Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (1992)
Grandchildren of Albion (1992)
The Great Snakeskin (1993)
A Stone's Throw from Embankment: The South Bank Collection (1993)
Granfather's Old Bruk-a-Down Car (1994)
A Caribbean Dozen (1994)
Oriki and the Monster Who Hated Balloons (1994)
The Monster Who Loved Toothbrushes (1994)
The Monster Who Loved Telephones (1994)
The Monster Who Loved Cameras (1994)
Poems in My Earphone (1995)
Eat a Poem, Wear a Poem (1995)
Get Back, Pimple! (1996)
We Animals Would Like a Word With You(1996)
Why is the Sky? (1996)
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (1996)
From the Devil's Pulpit (1997)
Brer Rabbit: The Great Tug-o-war (1998)
Hello New!: New Poems for a New Century (2000)
Weblines (2000)
Points of View with Professor Peekabo (2000)
A Child's Year of Stories and Poems (2000)
Come Back to Me My Boomerang (2001)
Einstein, The Girl Who Hated Maths (2002)
Number Parade: Number Poems from 0-100 (2002)
Under the Moon and Over the Sea (2002)
Hello H20 (2003)
From Mouth to Mouth (2004)
Baby Poems (2005)
Half-Caste (2005)
We Brits (2006)
Wriggle Piggy Toes (2006)
Butter-Finger (2006)
Shine On, Butter-Finger (2007)
Tiger Dead! Tiger Dead!: Stories from the Caribbean (2008)
The Young Inferno (2009)
Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (2009)
Clever Backbone (2009)
Goldilocks on CCTV (2011)
Travel Light Travel Dark (2013)
All Sorts to Make a World (2014)
Full Moon Night in Silk Cotton Tree Village (2016)
Playing the Ghost of Maimonides (2016)
Going Batty (2016)
Come All You Little Persons (2017)
The Rainmaker Danced (2017)
The Coming of the Little Green Man (2018)
Shona, the Word Detective (2018)
Books Make Good Pets (2018)