Poetry collections •
Poetry Introduction 4 with
Craig Raine,
Alan Hollinghurst,
Alistair Elliott,
Anne Cluysenaar and
Cal Clothier (Faber, 1978) •
The Slant Door (Secker & Warburg, 1979) •
November and May (Secker & Warburg, 1981) •
Short Wave (Secker & Warburg, 1984) •
The Photographer in Winter (Secker & Warburg, 1986) •
Metro (OUP, 1988) •
Bridge Passages (OUP, 1991) •
Blind Field (OUP, September 1994) •
Selected Poems (OUP, 1996) •
The Red All Over Riddle Book (Faber, for children, 1997) •
Portrait of my Father in an English Landscape (OUP, 1998) •
The Budapest File (Bloodaxe, 2000) •
An English Apocalypse (Bloodaxe, 2001) •
A Modern Bestiary with artist Ana Maria Pacheco (Pratt Contemporary Art, 2004) •
Reel (Bloodaxe, 2004) •
New and Collected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2008) •
Shuck, Hick, Tiffey – Three libretti for children, with Ken Crandell (Gatehouse, 2008) •
The Burning of the Books (Circle Press, 2008) •
The Burning of the Books and Other Poems (Bloodaxe, 2009) •
In the Land of the Giants – for children (Salt, 2012) •
Bad Machine (Bloodaxe, 2013) •
Bad Machine (Sheep Meadow, 2013, USA) •
Mapping the Delta (Bloodaxe, 2016) •
The Children (Paekakariki Press, 2018) •
Fresh Out of the Sky (Bloodaxe, 2021) • Selected poems in Hungarian, Chinese, Italian, German and Romanian
Memoir •
The Photographer at Sixteen (MacLehose Press, 2019)
Translation •
Imre Madách:
The Tragedy of Man, verse play (Corvina / Puski, 1989) • Sándor Csoóri:
Barbarian Prayer. Selected Poems (part translator, Corvina 1989) • István Vas:
Through the Smoke. Selected Poems (editor and part translator, Corvina, 1989) • Dezső Kosztolányi:
Anna Édes. Novel. (Quartet, 1991) • Ottó Orbán:
The Blood of the Walsungs. Selected Poems (editor and majority translator, Bloodaxe, 1993) •
Zsuzsa Rakovszky:
New Life. Selected Poems (editor and translator, OUP March 1994) •
The Colonnade of Teeth: Twentieth Century Hungarian Poetry (anthology, co-editor and translator, Bloodaxe 1996) •
The Lost Rider: Hungarian Poetry 16–20th Century, an anthology, editor and chief translator (Corvina, 1998) • Gyula Krúdy:
The Adventures of Sindbad short stories (CEUP, 1999) •
László Krasznahorkai:
The Melancholy of Resistance (Quartet, 1999) •
The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems of Ágnes Nemes Nagy (editor-translator, Bloodaxe, 2003) •
Sándor Márai:
Conversation in Bolzano (Knopf / Random House, 2004) • László Krasznahorkai:
War and War (New Directions, 2005) • Sándor Márai:
The Rebels (Knopf / Random House, 2007; Vintage / Picador, 2008) • Ferenc Karinthy:
Metropole (Telegram, 2008 • Sándor Márai: ''Esther's Inheritance'' (Knopf / Random House, 2008) • Sándor Márai:
Portraits of a Marriage (Knopf / Random House, 2011) • Yudit Kiss:
The Summer My Father Died (Telegram, 2012) • László Krasznahorkai:
Satantango (New Directions, 2012) • Magda Szabó: ''Iza's Ballad'' (Harvill Secker, 2014)
Poetry set to music •
The Flight, set to music by
Richard Causton (composer), as a commission for
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, at
King's College, Cambridge.
As editor •
The Collected Poems of Freda Downie (Bloodaxe 1995) •
The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry, co-edited with
George Gömöri (Bloodaxe 1997) •
New Writing 10, Anthology of new writing co-edited with Penelope Lively (Picador, 2001) •
An Island of Sound: Hungarian fiction and poetry at the point of change, co-edited with Miklós Vajda (Harvill, 2004) •
New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post-1989 Generation (Arc, 2010) •
In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on Their Poetry, co-edited with Helen Ivory (Salt, 2012)
Recordings •
The Poetry Quartets 6, with Moniza Alvi, Michael Donaghy and Anne Stevenson (Bloodaxe / British Council 2001) • George Szirtes (Poetry Archive, 2006) ==References==