Bibliography
2011
Family Values, Faber and Faber
2008
Two Cures for Love, Faber and Faber
2003
George Herbert: Verse and Prose, selector and introduction, SPCK
2002
Is That The New Moon?: Poems by Women Poets, selector, Collins
2001
If I Don’t Know, Faber and Faber
2001
Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems, editor, Faber and Faber
2000
Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems, editor, Orchard
1999
The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories, editor, Faber and Faber
1999
The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes, contributor, Faber and Faber
1998
The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems, editor, Faber and Faber
1998
Silly Bones, contributor, Scholastic
1998
Funnybones, contributor, CollinsEducational
1997
For All Occasions, contributor, Methuen
1997
Evergreen Verse, contributor, Dent
1997
Dear Future: A Time Capsule of Poems, contributor, Hodder & Stoughton
1997
A Draft of XXX Cantos, contributor, Faber and Faber
1996
Over the Moon: Championship Football Poems, contributor, Red Fox
1996
Marigolds Grow Wild on Platforms: An Anthology of Railway Poetry, contributor, Ward Lock
1996
Casting a Spell, contributor, Faber and Faber
1996
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died, contributor, Macmillan
1995
Poems 1, contributor, Addison Wesley Longman
1994
The Squirrel and the Crow, Prospero Poets
1993
The Orchard Book of Funny Poems, editor, Orchard
1993
The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking, contributor, Faber and Faber
1992
Serious Concerns, Faber and Faber
1991
The River Girl, Faber and Faber
1989
Is That the New Moon?, editor, HarperCollins
1988
Twiddling Your Thumbs, Faber and Faber
1988
Men and Their Boring Arguments, Wykeham
1988
Does She Like Word Games?, Anvil Press Poetry
1986
Poem from a Colour Chart of House Paints, limited edition, Priapus Press
1986
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Faber and Faber
1984
Hope and the 42, Other Branch Readings
1980
Across the City, Priapus Press (limited edition)
Awards
2010
OBE
2001
Whitbread Poetry Award, If I Don’t Know, shortlist
1995
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1987
Cholmondeley Award
