Excluded from this chronology are the items displayed under Histories, which are entered in the chronological order of the events described, NOT the order of writing.

• 1953/10/27 Song: The Arbroath Tragedy
• 1958/01/25 Song: The Smithfield Market Fire
• 1959/05/17 Song: Kelso Cochrane
• 1960s Birthday
• 1960s The city Venus
• 1971 Capricorn
• 1971 Singers of an Empty Day: 07-Bob Dylan: Freaking the media
• 1971 Song: Coming down to earth
• 1974/04/06 The dawn
• 1975 The Electric Muse
• 1985/12/21 And God spake Yorkshire
• 1988/07/06 NRB (The Bears’ Song)
• 199/12/31 Gibberish
• 1990/07/02 Song: Necessity
• 1990/12/11 Ending the Cult of "No Personality"
• 1991/05/28 Song: The lion and the lamb
• 1991/09/01 The death of Tovarich Ivan
• 1991/09/24 Obituary: Peter Bellamy
• 1991/09/24 Peter Bellamy - an appreciation
• 1991/12/25 Our flag is the flag of the world
• 1991/12/31 The murder of the Soviet revolution
• 1992/01/04 Theses for discussion
• 1993/06/05 Song: You have brought me home
• 1993/10/3 October 1993 - why the revolution never happened
• 1994/06/10 The 12, by Aleksandr Blok
• 1994/06/19 Aleksandr Blok: realist and mystic
• 1994/09/03 A Blessing
• 1995/02/06 Interview with the Vampire
• 1995/05/19 An interview with Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd
• 1995/08/06 Is this poetry or what?
• 1995/11/14 Diana Rigg and the National Theatre's Mother Courage
• 1996/01/01 Obituary: Hamish Imlach
• 1996/06/21-1996/07/08 Leaflets
• 1996/09/23 Obituary: Roy Guest
• 1997/11/29 Take my advice never court a young man
• 1997/12/08 My evening song
• 1998/08/27 Molly Bloom
• 1999/03/29 If children danced in Centenary Square
• 1999/04/29 To Gloria, on her birthday
• 1999/05/17 Song: The fair maid and her garden
• 1999/05/25 Two songs - New York, England
• 1999/06 20 A gentleman always stands for a lady
• 1999/06/03 The cairn
• 1999/06/05 A sensitive subject
• 1999/06/05 The old songs
• 1999/06/10 The Tom Clancy industry
• 1999/06/11 Translations
• 1999/06/14 A man in love
• 1999/06/15 Persistence of vision
• 1999/06/15 The wild garden
• 1999/06/21 Return to a birth day
• 1999/07/28 Letter: Churches in Kosovo
• 1999/07/30 A darkness
• 1999/08/04 Gratitude
• 1999/08/19 Song: The ballad of Mary Magdalene
• 1999/08/31-1999/09/01 Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality
• 1999/09/20 Unity in diversity
• 1999/09/01 Moonshadow
• 1999/09/01 Nevernot
• 1999/09/01 The Twelves
• 1999/09/10 Obituary: Katie Webster
• 1999/09/22 Song: Silver Dagger
• 1999/09/29 The broken
• 1999/09/30 A drink of water
• 1999/10/07 Peter Bellamy CD : Wake the Vaulted Echoes
• 1999/10/12 My exotic love
• 1999/10/12 Obituary: Frank Frost
• 1999/10/26 In Memoriam Hugh McDiarmid
• 1999/11/16 Performing Blok
• 1999/11/22 An enchanted wood
• 1999/11/24 A 'bad performance'
• 1999/12/01 Song: Fair Annie and Lovely Johnny
• 1999/12/07 Millennium Blues
• 1999/12/09-12 Woman singing
• 1999/12/13 A Millennium Stocking-Filler
• 1999/12/13 In year zero
• 1999/12/14 Film: End of Days
• 1999/12/14 Song: Go where I send thee
• 1999/12/25 Song: Millennium Eve, 1999
• 1999/12/31 End of the beginning
• 1999/04/06 Song: Milica
• 2000/03/05 Anger
• 2000/03/16 So be it
• 2000/05/02 I hate love!
• 2000/05/13 The haiku lady
• 2000/05/15 A year
• 2000/06/06 Wolf
• 2000/06/14 Poetry is
• 2000/06/30 Your presence
• 2000/08/19 Woman dancing
• 2000/09/22 Song: This really is the last waltz
• 2000/10/10 The legend of the nails
• 2001/02/10 Menstrual tensions
• 2001/02/12 A break-in
• 2001/02/13 Hair today
• 2001/02/13 Milk
• 2001/02/28 Fat Tuesday
• 2001/03/31 A Dance of Death
• 2001/04/09 Song of the demolitions at Khan Yunis
• 2001/05/30 Song: The windmill
• 2001/07/31 Lovesong in 7/16 time
• 2001/09/11 Djinn of Petra
• 2001/09/22 Chrysalis
• 2001/10/01 Mathematics of death
• 2001/11/06 First step
• 2001/11/07 The end of a love affair
• 2001/11/21 Jaded lovesong
• 2001/12/04 Rhapsody on a grey morning
• 2001/12/14 Sweet as woodsmoke
• 2001/12/26 A Walk on Haworth Moor
• 2001/12/26 Constancy
• 2001/12/31 Key to my heart
• 2001/12/31 No fucking chance!
• 2002/01/02 A Time of Tears
• 2002/01/02 Crocuses
• 2002/01/08 Riddle
• 2002/01/10-12 Song: A foolish old man
• 2002/01/11 Weather forecast
• 2002/01/13-14 Pilgrimage
• 2002/01/15 Juicer
• 2002/01/16 Song: Christmas Eve
• 2002/01/19 Heartbeat
• 2002/01/19 Possibility
• 2002/01/19 The Bradford Chalk Circle
• 2002/01/19 Too late
• 2002/01/20 Crying Fit
• 2002/01/20 Sunday breakfast
• 2002/01/22 SMS
• 2002/01/23 Preamble to A year, 2002
• 2002/01/25 Mut'a
• 2002/02/07 Obsession Blues
• 2002/02/08 Sing me the old songs
• 2002/02/10 Birthday Poem: The Cairn, 2002
• 2002/02/10 Song: The Lady from the West
• 2002/02/14 Valentine card
• 2002/02/16 An Occupation
• 2002/02/16 Love Is
• 2002/02/24 How warm
• 2002/02/24 Of a ring and a thing
• 2002/03/01 Reading Lawrence
• 2002/03/02 A sweet goodbye
• 2002/03/02 Cryptogram
• 2002/03/03 Re-reading Lawrence
• 2002/03/08 Blues for a lost love
• 2002/03/12 Funeral Song
• 2002/03/14 Graffitti
• 2002/03/18 Three months on
• 2002/03/20 Fidelity (Ruth's Song)
• 2002/03/20 Lust
• 2002/03/24 Song: The Cumbrian lass
• 2002/03/27 The meaning of your name
• 2002/03/29 To Aleppo gone
• 2002/04/02 Sweets from Syria
• 2002/04/07 The love thing
• 2002/04/10 Let her go
• 2002/04/14 Boundaries
• 2002/04/17 Betrayal
• 2002/04/17 Forgiveness
• 2002/04/19 Business Deal
• 2002/04/19 More than vanity
• 2002/04/22 The word
• 2002/04/23 Congratulations!
• 2002/04/24 You never danced with me
• 2002/04/27 Inconsistency
• 2002/05/01 Song: Savage Rose
• 2002/05/03 Thanks be to God
• 2002/05/04 Consequences
• 2002/05/04 Obituary: John Hasted
• 2002/05/04 John Hasted - Morning Star obituary
• 2002/05/06 Loss
• 2002/05/19 A Promise - or a Warning?
• 2002/05/20 A Death
• 2002/05/23 Erectile Disfunction
• 2002/05/24 Opera North double bill: l'Enfant et les Sortilèges/Petrushka
• 2002/06 SMS from Palestine
• 2002/06/15 Carapace
• 2002/06/18 Song of the Slaughtered Innocents
• 2002/06/20 Chimera
• 2002/06/25 Jerusalem
• 2002/06/26 Jerusalem
• 2002/06/27 Leaving Jerusalem
• 2002/06/28 Nablus
• 2002/06/29 Nablus
• 2002/06/30 Ballad of a small victory
• 2002/06/30 Nablus
• 2002/06 SMS
• 2002/07/01 Nablus
• 2002/07/02 Nablus
• 2002/07/04 Nablus
• 2002/07/05 Nablus/Jerusalem
• 2002/07/06 Travelling home
• 2002/07/31 Agony in the Garden
• 2002/08/01 Dark Lady
• 2002/08/31 On seeing the 1999 eclipse on TV
• 2002/09/20 Instead of a funeral pyre
• 2002/10/03 We don't know the half
• 2002/10/11 Song: On the banks of the moorlands
• 2002/10/22 A sad dance
• 2002/11/12 The Heartsongs
• 2002/11/27 Song: Why does love songs got to be so sad?
• 2002/12 My dark-haired woman
• 2002/12/03 The King of Clowns and the Happy Man’s Shirt
• 2002/12/03 The King of Clowns and the Happy Man’s Shirt
• 2002/12/31 A power greater than ourselves
• 2003/01/02 Words
• 2003/01/03 Inventory
• 2003/01/15 An ideal woman
• 2003/01/15 Exultation
• 2003/01/15 Song: It looks like the end of the road
• 2003/01/16 Creative accounting
• 2003/01/16 Emotional sobriety
• 2003/01/20 Counterblast
• 2003/01/20 The voice of God
• 2003/01/25 Song: Human shield
• 2003/01/26 A memorial service
• 2003/01/26 Graffito
• 2003/02/08 Holiness
• 2003/02/10 Birthday
• 2003/02/10 The city and the river
• 2003/03/08 The female Human Shield song
• 2003/03/12 Crushed by a wheel
• 2003/03/17 A face in a passing crowd
• 2003/04/14 Three poems for Good Friday
• 2003/04/22 Lost & found
• 2003/05/03 Only fools gamble with money
• 2003/05/05 Courtship
• 2003/05/09 Portrait of my love as a giraffe
• 2003/05/11 Portrait of my love as a bee
• 2003/05/11 Portrait of my love as a vulture
• 2003/05/12 Portrait of my love as a cat
• 2003/05/18 Trans-Pennine Express
• 2003/05/23 The Manchester girl
• 2003/06/-8 The New American Century
• 2003/06/08 A bestiary of impossible loves
• 2003/06/08 Portrait of my love as a bitch
• 2003/06/08 Portrait of my love as a serpent
• 2003/06/19 Obituary: Judith Piepe
• 2003/06/30 Cante Hondo
• 2003/07/03 An end
• 2003/07/13 Here for a season
• 2003/07/13 Skysong
• 2003/07/13 The personal is political
• 2003/07/17 Jacob
• 2003/07/17 Vote of thanks
• 2003/07/19 The personal is political
• 2003/08/08 The symbol for infinity
• 2003/08/15 50 million Americans are without electricity
• 2003/08/18 Boo-hoo-hooh!
• 2003/08/25 Memory
• 2003/08/25 These foolish things
• 2003/08/26 Portrait of my love as a snake
• 2003/09/05 Job
• 2003/09/09 1 mile closer to Leeds
• 2003/09/09 Childhood
• 2003/09/12 Trinity
• 2003/09/23 Poetasters
• 2003/09/30 Revenge of the savage
• 2003/10/24 Old man blues
• 2003/10/26 Mermaid song
• 2003/10/31 Madness
• 2003/11/07 Song
• 2003/11/10 Film: Wagner (Tony Palmer, 1983)
• 2003/11/15-18 Wordless in Eden
• 2003/12/02 Music of time: a quartet
• 2003/12/15 Roundelay
• 2003/12/16 The Celtic Myth, an aspect of globalisation
• 2003/22/02 Memory, November 2003
• 2004/01/06 Brueghel's Babel
• 2004/01/08 A burning question
• 2004/01/26 Bad day
• 2004/02/19 Poem from the past
• 2004/02/19 The breath of God
• 2004/02/19 The purpose of poetry
• 2004/04/13 Opera North: Eight Little Greats
• 2004/04/15 Lust
• 2004/04/15 The Seven Lively Virtues
• 2004/04/17 Zemlinsky's Dwarf
• 2004/05/14 Opera North: Djamileh/The Seven Deadly Sins
• 2004/05/26 Pride
• 2004/06/05 The goodbye
• 2004/08/19 Colours of resistance
• 2004/08/24 Seedtime and harvest
• 2004/08/31 Txts
• 2004/09/02 Hope
• 2004/09/21 '45a: an alternative reality
• 2004/09/30 First aid
• 2004/10/22 Watering the desert
• 2004/10/23 The Politics of the Folk Revival
• 2004/12/25 On Christmas Eve
• 2005/02/11 The joke
• 2005/04/08 The harder they fall
• 2005/04/09 Walk-on
• 2005/06/28 Acts of love
• 2005/08/06 That woman
• 2005/09/23 Poetry is a kind of madness
• 2005/10/5-7 Celebration
• 2005/11/05 The love bug
• 2005/12/26 All black
• 2006/02/19 Bereavement
• 2006/04/09 "Why not?"
• 2006/04/13 Beloved friend
• 2006/04/22 Happy Pain
• 2006/05 26 The revolution never happened.
• 2006/05/05 Sky is cryin'
• 2006/05/15 Eternity
• 2006/05/17 Spring Song
• 2006/05/21 Dialectic
• 2006/05/23 The glass is half-full
• 2006/06/29 Back story: Unto Brigg Fair
• 2006/07/09 Obsession
• 2006/07/15 Darkness on a summer's day
• 2006/07/18 Bierley Hall Wood Ponds
• 2006/07/20 Star-crossed?
• 2006/08/03 Freedom
• 2006/08/05 Portrait of my love as a monkey
• 2006/08/06 Arseholes
• 2006/08/06 Demonstration
• 2006/08/06 The wisdom of insecurity
• 2006/08/07 Portrait of my love as a wolf
• 2006/08/16 To an angry poet
• 2006/08/18 Ben Gunn
• 2006/09/11 Missing in action
• 2006/09/17 Magic spell
• 2006/09/18 Double-agent
• 2006/09/18 Sound sculpture
• 2006/09/21 String theory
• 2006: An extract from The Sacred Blade