Poems Only A Dog Could Love, (poetry) Applegarth Follies, London, Ontario, 1976
  Love Among the Tombstones, (poetry) Dogwood Press, Simcoe, Ontario, 1980
  Fossils of the Twentieth Century, (poetry) Vesta Publications, Cornwall, Ontario, 1983
  Small Worlds, (poetry) Vesta Publications, Cornwall, Ontario, 1986
  Hired Hands, (poetry and prose) Brick Books, 1986
  Rediscovered Sheep, (poetry) Brick Books, 1987
*The Bad Philosophy of Good Cows, (poetry) Black Moss Press, Windsor, Ontario, 1989
  The Hockey Player Sonnets, (poetry) Penumbra Press, 1991
*The Pig Dance Dreams, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1991
  When Shaving Seems Like Suicide, (poetry) Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, NB, 1992
*The Art of Walking Backwards, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1993
  Variations on Herb, (poetry and prose) Brick Books, London, Ontario, 1993
  All the Cats Are Gone, (poetry) Penumbra Press, 1993
*These Are the Days of Dogs and Horses, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1994
  Head Heart Hands Health: A History of 4H in Ontario,
               (non fiction) Comrie Productions, Peterborough, Ontario, 1994
*The Beatles Landed Laughing in New York, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1995
*Tongues of the Children, (documentary poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 1996
*Never Hand Me Anything if I am Walking or Standing, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1997
*Soldier’s Heart, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1998
*Stella’s Journey, (poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 1999
*Don’t Be So Persnickety, (children’s verse) Black Moss Press, 2000
*Building Bicycles in the Dark: a practical guide to writing, (non fiction)
             Black Moss Press, 2001
*The Half-Way Tree: selected poems of John B. Lee, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 2001
  In the Terrible Weather of Guns, (documentary poetry and prose)
            Mansfield Press, Toronto, 2002
The Hockey Player Sonnets: overtime edition (poetry) Penumbra Press,
            Ottawa, Ontario, 2003
*Totally Unused Heart, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 2003
*The Farm on the Hill He Calls Home, (memoir) Black Moss Press, 2004
*Poems for the Pornographer’s Daughter, (poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 2005
*Godspeed, (documentary poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 2006
*Left Hand Horses: meditations on influence and the imagination, Black Moss Press, 2007
*The Place that We Keep After Leaving, Black Moss Press, 2008
   Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea, Hidden Brook Press, 2008
   Being Human, Sunbun Press, 2010
   Dressed in Dead Uncles, Black Moss Press, 2010
   King Joe: A Matter of Treason—the life and times of Joseph Willcocks
                   (1773-September 5, 1814) (Heronwood Enterprises, winter 2010)


 

  To Kill a White Dog, (documentary poem) Brick Books, 1982
  The Day Jane Fonda Came to Guelph, (poetry) The Ploughman Press,
              Whitby, Ontario, 1996
  What’s in a Name: the pursuit of George Peacock, Namesake of Peacock Point,
              (essay) Dogwood Press, Brantford, Ontario, 1996
  In a Language with No Word For Horses, (documentary poems) above/ground press,
              Ottawa, Ontario, 1997
  The Echo of Your Words Has Reached Me, (poetry) Mekler & Deahl,
              Hamilton, Ontario, 1998
  An Almost Silent Drumming: the South Africa poems, (poetry) Cranberry Tree Press,
                Windsor, Ontario, 2001
  Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green, (poetry) Leaf Press, Lantzville, BC, 2004
  Though Their Joined Hearts Drummed Like Larks, (documentary poetry)
                 Passion Among the Cacti Press, Kitchener, Ontario, 2004
  Bright Red Apples of the Dead, (poetry) Pooka Press, BC, 2004
*How Beautiful We Are, (poetry) Souwesto Orion Prize, Black Moss Press, 2006
  But Where Were the Horses of Evening, Serengeti Press, 2007
  Let Light Try All the Doors, Rubicon Press, fall 2009
  One Leaf in the Breath of the World, Beret Days Press, 2009