A selection of publications produced by NCLA staff members is listed here. Please note that this list is not exhaustive.
Autobiography (Routledge, 2001)
ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery (University of Newcastle in association with Bloodaxe Books, 2002)
Autobiography and personal criticism. In: Gill Plain and Susan Sellers, ed. A History of Feminist Literary Criticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 138-153)
Autobiography and the feminist subject. In: Ellen Rooney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 119-135)
Poetry, Gender, Feminism. In: Neil Corcoran, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said's Out of Place. In: Ranjan Ghosh, ed. Edward Said and the Literary, Social and Political World. (New York: Routledge, 2008)
Poetry with an Edge (Bloodaxe Books, 1988)
Darwin Survivor (Peterloo Poets, 1988)
Tony Harrison: Bloodaxe Critical Anthologies I. (Bloodaxe Books, 1991)
Biting My Tongue (Bloodaxe Books, 1995)
The End of my Tether (Flambard Press, 2002)
Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (Bloodaxe Books, 2002)
The Heel of Bernadette (Picador, 2000)
The Observations of Aleksandr Svetlov (Donut Press, 2007)
Self-Portrait in the Dark (Picador, 2008)
Books
Dream Team Mission 1: Flying Solo (Walker Books, 2006)
Dream Team Mission 2: Showtime (Walker Books, 2006)
Dream Team Mission 3: Speed Challenge (Walker Books, 2007)
Dream Team Mission 4: The Daydream Shift (Walker Books, 2007)
Glint (HarperCollins, 2007)
Plays (All published by Oberon Books)
Alex and the Warrior
Alex and the Winter Star
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers / Safe
Three Plays: Get Up and Tie Your Fingers / Safe / Devil’s Ground
Music, In a Foreign Language (Dedalus, 1994. Reprint 2004)
Pfitz (Dedalus, 1995)
D’Alembert’s Principle (Dedalus, 1996)
Mr Mee (Picador, 2001)
Mobius Dick (Picador, 2005)
Sputnik Caledonia (Picador, 2008)
Flight of Black Swans (London: Duckworth, 1995)
Strange Music (London: Jonathan Cape, 2008)
Red (Bloodaxe Books, 1992)
The Gentleness of the Very Tall (Bloodaxe Books, 1994)
Storyville (Bloodaxe Books, 1997)
The Simultaneous Dress (Bloodaxe Books, 2002)
The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club: A Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
Moving Towards Light (Flambard Press, 1992)
Instructions for the Desert (Flambard Press, 1996)
Only a Small Boat (Flambard Press, 2001)
Jack’s Letters Home (Flambard Press, 2006)
Background Music (Flambard Press, 2009)
Closer (UK/FR: Women Make Movies, 2001), DVD (35mm film)
Mother/country (UK: Frameline, 2002), DVD (Digital Video, 25')
A Town Like Lackawanna (USA/UK: Hallwalls Media Institute, 2004), DVD (Digital Video, 25’)
Last of the Dictionary Men: Stories From the South Shields Yemeni Sailor (UK: Bridge + Tunnel Productions, 2007)
The King Of South Shields (UK: Arts Council England, 2006), DVD (Digital Video)
i-Kooch – Interactive Web Narrative Project (UK: Nomad Cultural Forum, 2006)
The Laurelude (Bloodaxe Books, 1998)
With M. Hollis Strong Words (Bloodaxe Books, 2000)
The Big Bumper Book of Troy (Bloodaxe Books, 2002)
Bad Shaman Blues. (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)
Writing Poetry. In: Linda Anderson, ed. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (Routledge, 2006)
Creative Space. In: Jayne Steel, ed. Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, pp. 183)
Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe Books, 1991)
Other Lovers (Bloodaxe Books, 1993)
Outline: Bessie Smith (Absolute Press, 1997)
The Frog Who Dreamed She Was an Opera Singer with Sue Williams, illustrator (Bloomsbury, 1998)
Off Colour (Bloodaxe Books,1998)
Trumpet (Picador, 1999)
Why Don't You Stop Talking (Picador, 2002)
Strawgirl (Macmillan Children's Books, 2003)
Life Mask (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
Wish I Was Here (Picador, 2006)
Sonata (Picador, 2006)
Red, Cherry Red (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007)
Darling: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)
The Lamplighter (Bloodaxe Books, 2008)
Of Chameleons and Gods (African Writers Series) (Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, 1991)
Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison (African Writers Series) (Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, 1993)
Skipping Without Ropes (Bloodaxe Books, 1998)
ed. Gathering Seaweed : African Prison Writing (Heinemann, 2002)
ed. An African Thunderstorm & Other Poems (Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, 2004)
The Last of the Sweet Bananas : New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2004)
Beasts of Nalunga (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)
Downriver (London: Picador, 2001)
Aristophanes, adapted by Sean O'Brien The Birds (Methuen, 2002)
Cousin Coat : Selected Poems, 1976-2001 (Picador, 2002)
Keepers of the Flame (London: Methuen, 2003)
Dante Alighieri, translated by Sean O'Brien Inferno : a verse translation. (London: Picador, 2006)
The Drowned Book (London: Picador, 2007)
The Silence Room (Comma Press, 2008)
Afterlife (Picador, 2009)
Practical Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 1991)
with Richard Hahlo Dramatic Events (Faber & Faber, 2003)
The Thing To Do When You Are Not In Love (Sand/Red Squirrel Press, 2008)
I Decided to Kill my Brother-in-Law After Dinner (UK: BBC Radio 4, 2002)
I Married a Marxist (UK: BBC Radio 4, 2003)
KAPUT! (UK: New Writing North, 2004)
Passover (UK: BBC Radio 4, 2005)
ed. So, What Kept You? : New stories inspired by Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver (Flambard, 2006)
Out of the Ashes (BBC Radio 4, 2009)