Books
- 1968 Our Western Furniture, poetry
- 1969 Put Thou Thy Tears Into My Bottle, poetry
- 1972 Terminal Moraine
- 1978 A Vacant Possession, TNR Publications
- 1980 A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet
- 1981 Dead Soldiers, Sycamore Press
- 1982 The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982, Salamander Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-907540-39-7
- 1984 Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 Random House, 1984, ISBN 9780394533605 These poems combined with those from The Memory of War made up the Penguin volume, The Memory of War and Children in Exile; published in the United States as Children in Exile; Salamander Press
- 1983 You Were Marvellous, selected theatre reviews published 1979-1981
- 1986 The Snap Revolution
- 1987 Partingtime Hall, co-author with John Fuller, Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems
- 1988 All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of the Pacific Rim, reportage; Viking; Atlantic Monthly Press (1988); reissued with a new introduction by Granta (2005)
- 1989 Manila Envelope, self-published book of poems
- 1994 Out of Danger, Fenton considers this his second collection of poems. It contains Manila Envelope and later poems; Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry
- 1998 Leonardo's Nephew, art essays from The New York Review of Books
- 2001 The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-818707-3
- 2001 A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- 2002 An introduction to English poetry, Editor James Fenton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, ISBN 978-0-374-10464-1
- 2003 The Love Bomb, verse written as a libretto for a composer who rejected it; Penguin / Faber and Faber
- 2006 School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts, (2006) a history
- 2006 Selected Poems, Penguin
- 2006 The New Faber Book of Love Poems, as editor
- 2012 "Yellow Tulips - Poems 1968-2011"
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