Criticism •
Introduction to The Stone Angel — 1967 •
Malcolm Lowry — 1971 •
Articulating West — 1972 •
Among Worlds: An Introduction to Modern Commonwealth and South African Fiction — 1975 •
Malcolm Lowry: A Reference Guide — 1978 •
Dreams of Speech and Violence: The Art of the Short Story in Canada and New Zealand — 1987 •
A History of Canadian Literature — 1989 •
Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence & Power in Canadian Writing — 1997 •
Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form — 1999 •
The Encyclopedia of Canadian Literature. University of Toronto, 2002 •
Grandchild of Empire: About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth — 2003 •
From a Speaking Place: Writings from the first 50 years of Canadian Literature — 2009
Poetry •
Science Lessons — 1996 •
Raucous — 1999 •
Stone | Rain — 2001 •
Riverbook and Ocean — 2002 •
Night Room — 2003 •
Underwood Log — 2004 •
Touching Ecuador — 2006 •
Along a Snake Fence Riding — 2007 • ''The Rope-maker's Tale'' — 2009 •
YVR — 2011 •
New & Selected Poems — 2015 •
Neighbors — 2017 •
In the Plague Year — 2021 •
Inventing What We Need to Know — 2025
Children's books •
Vanilla Gorilla — 1998 •
Llamas in the Laundry — 2002 •
Dream Helmet — 2005 •
The Year I Was Grounded — 2008 •
Sam Swallow and the Riddleworld League — 2013
Anthologies edited •
Four Hemispheres — 1971 •
Voice and Vision — 1972 (with
Jack Hodgins) •
Dramatists in Canada — 1972 •
Critical Writings on Commonwealth Literatures: A Bibliography — 1975 •
Modern Stories in English — 1975 (with H.J. Rosengarten) •
Modern Canadian Essays — 1976 •
Margaret Laurence: The Writer and Her Critics — 1977 •
A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock — 1978 •
Active Voice — 1980 (with W.E. Messenger) •
The Active Stylist — 1981 (with W.E. Messenger) •
A 20th Century Anthology — 1984 •
Canadian Short Fiction — 1986 •
Canadian Writers Since 1960 — 1986 •
Canadian Writers Since 1960, 2nd series — 1987 •
Canadian Writers 1920-1959 — 1988 •
Canadian Writers 1920-1959, 2nd series — 1989 •
Native Writers and Canadian Writing — 1990 •
Canadian Writers Before 1890 — 1990 •
Canadian Writers 1890-1920 — 1990 •
Inside the Poem — 1992 •
Literature in English — 1993 (with W.E. Messenger) •
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada — 2002 •
Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context — 2007 (with Marta Dvorak) •
From a Speaking Place: Writings from the First Fifty Years of Canadian Literature — 2009 (with Réjean Beaudoin, Susan Fisher, Iain Higgins, Eva-Marie Kröller and Laurie Ricou) ==Honors and awards==