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"Girl, Got; Direct Train; December in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City; Dotage". Acorn 15. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008.
  • A Strange Girl in Bright Colours. Quartet. 1973.
  • A Necklace of Mirrors Ulsterman, 1978
  • Unplayed Music. Secker & Warburg. 1981.
  • Scenes from the Gingerbread House. Bloodaxe. 1982. ISBN   978-0-906427-27-9.
  • Star Whisper . Secker & Warburg. 1983. ISBN   978-0-436-43901-8.
  • Direct Dialling. Chatto & Windus. 1985. ISBN   978-0-7011-2911-8.
  • Icon Waves The Star Wheel Press, 1986
  • Selected Poems. Chatto & Windus. 1987. ISBN   978-0-7011-3201-9.
  • The Greening of the Snow Beach. Bloodaxe. 1988. ISBN   978-1-85224-062-2.
  • From Berlin to Heaven. Chatto & Windus. 1989.
  • Thinking of Skins: New and Selected Poems. Bloodaxe. 1993. ISBN   978-1-85224-280-0.
  • Best China Sky. Bloodaxe. 1995. ISBN   978-1-85224-337-1.
  • The Miracle Diet. Bloodaxe. 1997. ISBN   978-1-85224-418-7.
  • Holding Pattern. Blackstaff Press. 1998. ISBN   978-0-85640-638-6.
  • Hex. Bloodaxe. 2002. ISBN   978-1-85224-602-0.
  • Selected Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe. 2004. ISBN   978-1-85224-680-8.
  • Blind Spots. Seren. 2008. ISBN   978-1-85411-465-5.
  • De Chirico's Threads. Seren. 2010. ISBN   978-1-85411-534-8.
  • The Emigree
  • Novels

    Editor

    • Making for the Open: The Chatto Book of Post-Feminist Poetry 1964-1984. Chatto & Windus. 1985. ISBN   978-0-7011-2848-7.
    • Slipping Glimpses: Winter Poetry Supplement (editor), Poetry Book Society, 1985
    • New Women Poets. Bloodaxe. 1990. ISBN   978-1-85224-145-2.
    • Two Women Dancing: New and Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bartlett (editor), Bloodaxe, 1995
    • Old City, New Rumours: A Hull Anthology (editor Five Leaves Press, 2010

    Plays

    • Nearly Siberia (Pascal Theatre Company, Newcastle and London, 1989)
    • The Freak of the Week Show (EyeSpy Theatre Company, East Didsbury Studio, Manchester, 2001)
    • Suzanne Hecabe (Arden School of Theatre, Manchester, 2002).

    Translations

    • Pencil Letter /Irina Ratushinskaya (translator), Bloodaxe, 1988
    • The Poetry of Perestroika. Translated by Carol Rumens; Richard McKane. Iron Press. 1990. ISBN   978-0-906228-35-7.
    • After Pushkin (contributor), Carcanet, 2000 with Yuri Drobyshev
    • Yevgenii Rein: Selected Poems (translator), Bloodaxe, 2001

    Non-fiction

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    Carol Rumens
    Born (1944-12-10) 10 December 1944 (age 79)
    Forest Hill, London, England
    OccupationPoet
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of London