Bibliography
Children, Drama, Poetry, Short stories
Portraits Privately Published, 1962
Little Johnny's Confession Allen and Unwin, 1967
The Liverpool Scene (contributor) Donald Carroll, 1967
The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10 (Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten) Penguin (revised edition, 1980), 1967
Atomic Adam Fulham Gallery, 1968
Notes to the Hurrying Man: Poems, Winter '66-Summer '68 Allen and Unwin, 1969
The Home Coming Turret Books, 1969
The Elephant and the Flower: Almost-Fables Allen and Unwin, 1970
The Irrelevant Song (revised edition, 1975) Allen and Unwin, 1971
Walking Out: The Early Poems of Brian Patten Traniscan, 1971
When You Wake Tomorrow Turret Books, 1971
And Sometimes it Happens Steam Press, 1972
Double Image: Five Poems by Michael Baldwin, John Fairfax and Brian Patten Longman, 1972
Jumping Mouse Allen and Unwin, 1972
The Eminent Professors and the Nature of Poetry as Enacted Out by Members of the Poetry Seminar One Rainy Evening Poem of the Month Club, 1972
Manchild Covent Garden Press, 1973
The House That Jack Built: Poems for Shelter (co-editor with Pat Krett) Allen and Unwin, 1973
The Unreliable Nightingale Rota, 1973
Two Stories Covent Garden Press, 1973
Mr. Moon's Last Case Allen and Unwin, 1975
Emma's Doll Allen and Unwin, 1976
Vanishing Trick Allen and Unwin, 1976
The Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse (contributor) Oxford University Press, 1977
The Sly Cormorant and the Fishes: New Adaptations intro Poetry of the Aesop Fables Kestrel, 1977
Grave Gossip Allen and Unwin, 1979
Clare's Countryside: A Book on John Clare (introduced by Brian Patten) Heinemann, 1981
Gangsters, Ghosts and Dragon Flies: A Book of Story Poems (editor) Allen and Unwin, 1981
Love Poems Allen and Unwin, 1981
New Volume: The Penguin Poets (with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri) Penguin, 1983
Gargling with Jelly: A Collection of Poems Kestrel, 1985
Jimmy Tag-along Kestrel, 1988
Storm Damage Unwin Hyman, 1988
A Year of Mouse Poems Scholastic, 1990
Grinning Jack: Selected Poems Unwin, 1990
Puffin Portable Poets (with Roger McGough and Kit Wright) Puffin, 1990
Thawing Frozen Frogs Viking Children's, 1990
The Puffin Book of Twentieth Century Children's Verse (editor) Viking Children's Books (revised Puffin, 1999), 1991
Grizelda Frizzle and Other Stories Viking, 1992
The Magical Bicycle Walker, 1993
Impossible Parents Walker, 1994
The Utter Nutters Viking Children's Books, 1994
Storm Damage Flamingo, 1995
Armada Flamingo, 1996
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (with John Agard, Wendy Cope, Roger McGough and Adrian Mitchell) Macmillan Children's Books, 1997
Mouse Poems Scholastic, 1998
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry (editor) Puffin, 1998
Beowulf and the Monster Scholastic Hippo, 1999
Five Finger-Piglets: Poems (with Jackie Kay, Carol Ann Duffy, Gareth Owen and Roger McGough) Macmillan Children's Books, 1999
The Blue and Green Ark: An Alphabet for Planet Earth Scholastic Press, 1999
The Puffin Twentieth-Century Collection of Verse (editor) Puffin, 1999
Juggling with Gerbils Puffin, 2000
Little Hotchpotch Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2000
The Impossible Parents Go Green Walker, 2000
The Walker Book of Funny Stories Walker, 2000
The Story Giant Flamingo, 2001
Ben's Magic Telescope Puffin, 2003
The Story Giant, illustrated by Chris Riddell Collins 2003
Selected Poems Penguin Books 2007
The Collected Love Poems Harper Perennial 2007
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