Poetry (in chronological order):
The Portrait and Other Poems, 1950
The Peaceable Kingdom, 1954
The Two Freedoms, 1958
The Re-ordering of the Stones, 1961
Flower Poems, 1964
Nature with Man, 1965
Poems New and Selected, 1966
Three Poems, 1969
Vernon Watkins and Jon Silkin: Poems, 1969
Pergamon Poets 8, with Vernon Scannell, edited by Dennis Butts, 1970
Amana Grass, 1971
Killhope Wheel, 1971
Caring for Animals, 1972
Air That Pricks Earth, 1973
South Africa’s Bird of Paradise Flower, 1974
The Principle of Water, 1974
A”Jarapiri” Poem, 1975
The Little Time-Keeper, 1976
Two Images of Continuing Trouble, 1976
Jerusalem, 1977
Into Praising, 1978
The Lapidary Poems, 1979
The Psalms with Their Spoils, 1980
Selected Poems, 1980; enlarged edition, 1988, 1993
Autobiographical Stanzas, 1984
Footsteps on a Downcast Path, 1984
The Ship’s Pasture, 1986
The Lens-Breakers, 1992
Watersmeet, 1994
Testament without Breath, 1998
Readings about Silkin:
Abley, Mark, “The Hand That Erases”, Oxford Literary Journal(Spring 1977)
Baker, William, “Reflections on Anglo-Jewish Poetry”, Jewish Quarterly (Autumn–Winter 1978–79)
Brown, Merle E., “Stress in Silkin’s Poetry and the Healing Emptiness of America”, Contemporary Literature, 18 (Summer 1977)
Brown, Merle E., Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry, London: Routledge, and New York: Columbia University Press, 1980
Cluysenaar, Anne, “Alone in a Mine of Reality: A Matrix in the Poetry of Jon Silkin” in British Poetry since 1960, edited by Michael Schmidt and Grevel Lindop, Oxford: Carcanet, 1972
Fuller, John, London Magazine (October 1966)
Halter, Aloma, “Poetry and Poezak”, Jerusalem Post Magazine (15 May 1987)
Hill, Geoffrey, “The Poetry of Jon Silkin”, Poetry and Audience,2(1962)
Glover, Jon, “Jon Silkin: The Voice in the Peaceable Kingdom”,Bananas (20 April 1980)
Glover, Jon, “Jon Silkin at Sixty: ‘But Why?’”, Stand, 32/1 (1990)
“John Silkin: A Bibliography”, Poetry Review, 69(1980): 75–76
Klein, Holger, “Jon Silkin’s ‘The Coldness’”, Stand, 27/3 (1986)
Meiners, R.K., “Mourning for Ourselves and for Poetry: The Lyric after Auschwitz”, Centennial Review, 35/3 (Autumn 1991)
O’Donoghue, Bernard, “Death of a Moth”, Times LiterarySupplement (4 August 1992)
Parry, Lloyd, “Interview with a Committed Individual”, Isis,1(1989)
Relich, Mario, “The Struggle against Brutality”, Lines (September 1988)
Sail, Lawrence, “Conflict and Calm: A Reading of Two of the FlowerPoems”, Poetry Review, 69(1980)
Schmidt, Michael, An Introduction to Fifty Modern British Poets,London: Pan, 1979
Sicher, Efraim, Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985
Silkin, Jon, “The First Twenty-Four Years” in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, vol. 5, Detroit: Gale, 1987
Times Literary Supplement (19 July 1976)
