The bibliography covers the main published items 1969-2002, and does not include, with a few exceptions, the numerous magazine and journal publications republished in book form.  The graphic work characterised as illustrations done for publications written or performed by others have not been included.  The paintings made to stand alone have been excluded from this bibliography (with the exception noted at af50, where there is a composite of text, film, graphic work and painting involved).
 

 The following signs preceding work numbers indicate as follows:-

  S Summated into a subsequent publication.  S

  V Graphic work.  Usually very little text.   V

  VT Graphic work including text as part of the work  VT

  BBB Part of the Blood Bone Brain project   BBB

  P Part of the place  project     P

  G Part of the Gravity  sequence    G

  Ø Linked projects      Ø

  tg also part of the Tate Gallery archive, London  tg
 

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1.BAVUSKA,  Big Venus, London, 1969. (Subsequently rewritten parts in Not Poetry,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1980-1.).
2.Thomas Net's TREE-BIRST,  Edible Magazine, London, 1970; part of the second book, TREE-BEND, in  Notting Hill,         London, 1973 and part as a privately published broad sheet.
3.Before Ideas, Ideas,  Edible Magazine, London, 1971.
V4.My Bijou,  with Dick Miller, I.B.H. Books, London, 1971.
V5.All Horses Have Feathers,  with Dick Miller, I.B.H.  Books, London, 1971.
tg6.SPACES FOR WINTER SOLSTICE, blueprint,  Beau Geste Press, Cullompton, Devon, 1972.
7.Psychotectonics,  parts in Curtains, Maidstone, Kent, Io,  New York, and Big Venus,  London, 1971.
VT  8  FIELDS,  Mail Shots, London, 1972.
V  9.  Bernado,  with Dick Miller, I.B.H.  Books, 1972.
S tg 10. MILK IN BOTTLES,  Performance handout, Edible Magazine, 1972  (also  in
  Fluxshoe Add-enda,  Beau Geste Press, Cullompton, Devon, 1972.)
BBB tg 11. FFACECE,  Aloes Books, London, 1972 (now on microfiche, af63).
 12. "Parcel to Clyst Hydon," in Fluxshoe,  Beau Geste Press, Cullompton,1972.
VT 13. CIRCLES LINES WHEELBARROWS,  International Art Cooperative, Germany, 1973 (republished in af26).
 14. "FOUR NOVELS," in Sixpack,  London and New York, 1973.
 15. "The Southampton Listener," in Curtains,  Maidstone, 1973.
 16. "A meal without mushrooms...," in Platform,  London, 1973.
BBB tg  17. CREEK IN THE CEILING BEAM,  Aloes Books, London, 1973 (now on microfiche, af63).
 18. LISTEN   (Postal Broadcast audio-tape), 1973, parts of text in Loaded  Drum,
  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Boston Eagle,  USA.
BBB tg 19. SICILY, Aloes Books, London, 1973 (now on microfiche, af63).
 20. To Decode This..., with Dick Miller (part in PROSYNCEL,  af26).
V 21. FIVE FOR GRAHAMS',  Aloes Books, London, 1973.
P 22. PLACE, BOOK ONE,  Aloes Books, London, 1974.  Republished in USA by Truck Books, St.Paul, 1976.
V tg 23. taken the days after we had beef curry ..., Beau Geste Press, Cullompton,1974.
S 24. CAENOZOIC,  included in Fix,  1975.  Facsimile version in POETRY FOR  SCHOOLS,    (af65).
 25. long shout to kernewek,  New London Pride Editions, London, 1975.
 26. PROSYNCEL, blueprint,  Notting Hill,  Canada and New York, 1975.
 27. 5 PLAGES 'SHUN,  Prison Clothes Press, Wales, 1975.
 28. PAXTON'S BEACON,  (i.e. selections from The Art of Flight ) Arc Publications,     Todmorden, Lancs., 1976.
 29. THE LEER,  Branch Redd Publications, Philadelphia and London, 1976.
S 30. GRIPPING THE RAIL,  Pig Press, 1976.  Included in POETRY FOR SCHOOLS  (af66).
 31. 'Der Verolene' Operation,  Mugshots, Kent, 1976.
P 32. STANE, Place Book Three,  Aloes Books, London, 1977, 2 editions.
P 33. FIRE-PLACE,  jointly with Pierre Joris' Hearth-Work,  bound as a Z-book titled     FIRE-WORK,  Hatch Books, Lancs.,  1977.
 34. MESSAGES REACH US,  included in Rawz,  London, 1977.
S 35. "Self-Portraits" and "PINK 149", G.E. Free-sheet, Surrey, 1977 (republished in af62).
S 36. "doing", Twisted Wrist, Maidstone, Kent, 1977  (republished in af42).
 37. THE PREPARATION,  with David Miller, X Press, 1977.
S 38. "Samuel Matthews", privately made 1977  (republished in af42).
 39. DOCKING,  Great Works Editions, Bishop's Stortford, 1978.
P, S 40. LONDON BLIGHT,  Tapocketa Chapbook, 1978 (second version in af62).
P 41. Convergences, in place, of the play,  newspaper format, Spanner, London,1978.
P 42. BECOMING, Place Book Four and part of five,  Aloes Books, London,1978.
V 43. "Nijinski Studies", included in collective Alembic,  London, 1978.
 44. THE APOCALYPTIC SONNETS,  with etchings by Robert Clark, Pig Press, Durham,    1978.
 45. CHEST BREATH and Car Wash interview,  with e.e. vonna-michell, Typical     Characteristics cassette, 1978.
V 46. Atherapy Studies Q,  Writers' Forum, London, 1978.
 47. SSSSPEECH,  Writers' Forum, London, 1978.
V 48. REICH,  Spanner, London, 1978.
V 49. COMBS,  Spanner, 1979.
VT 50. Kessingland Studies,  Spanner, London, 1979 (including "AS FAST AS POSSIBLE    II"). Part of this work, a 4-part painting, exhibited in Traps or Tools & Damage show  in Hereford City Museum & Art Gallery, 1994.
S 51. Pam Burnel's POLITICAL SPEECHES,  part of Rawz,  London, 1979 (republished in af75).
 52. The Poems of Chris Famulus & his circle,  in Blue Print,  1979.
S 53. "Thumbnail Lecture", in Reality Studios,  London, 1980 (reprinted in af120).
 54. INTERMEDIATE SPIRIT RECEIVER,  Zunne Heft, 1980, with a book of the same title by Ulli McCarthy, authors' names transposed.
V 55. SOUTH THAMES STUDIOS,  Spanner, 1980.
 56. INTERNATIONAL FAMINE,  Combat cassette, 1980.
P 57. Hooks, taken out of place 32,  pod books, Baltimore, 1980.
P 58. EROS : FATHER : PATTERN,  Secret Books, Kent, 1980.
S 59. "The Mathematics of Rimbaud", in Reality Studios,  London, 1980 (republished in    af120).
 60. URBAN CANOPY LESIONS,  text included in Kudos,  1980.
 61. IMBRICATIONS,  from EXECUTIVE EASE,  Lobby Press, Cambridge, 1981.
P 62. UNPOLISHED MIRRORS,  Spanner serial format 1979-80, collated edition 1981.     Earlier drafts Alembic, Io, Sixpack,  and Truck,  1972-3.  Republished in selected form,    Reality Studios, 1986.
BBB 63. BLOOD BONE BRAIN,   Documents on nine microfiches in 7 booklets, Spanner
  1981-2.  Including books published 1971-73 and project/performance work, 1971-72.
 64. THE ART OF FLIGHT VI-IX,  Writers' Forum poster, 1982.
S 65. Extracts from Stepping-out,  Spanner, London, 1982.
 66. POETRY FOR SCHOOLS,  Aloes Books, London, dated 1980, issued 1982.
 67. BENDING WINDOWS,  display version, Spanner, London, 1982.
S 68. "The Topological Shovel", in Reality Studios,  London, 1982, and Spanner reprint    af70 (reprinted in af120).
BBB 69. THE ART OF FLIGHT  and BLOOD BONE BRAIN,  extracts from performances and    studio recordings, Typical Characteristics cassette, 1982.
 70. Reprints of "Thumbnail Lecture" and "The Mathematics of Rimbaud", for Writer-in-   Residence programme at 80 Langton Street  gallery, San Francisco, 1982     (republished in af120).
 71. Allen Fisher's Stepping out,  a film made by e.e. vonna-michel, with Allen Fisher     reading, Balsam Flex video-cassette, 1983.
S 72. CAREFUL ABSENCE,  Figlet Books, Derbyshire, 1982.
G, Ø 73. Ideas on the culture dreamed of,  Spanner, London, 1983.
Ø 74. DEFAMILIARISING ............*,  Spanner, London, 1983.
 75. BALL GUM,  including Frank Sussaman's Keeping it clean; Pam Burnel's  POLITICAL    SPEECHES, Tony Bayliss' photographs of the Ball Gum jars,  and Pig Mayhem's     poster,  Spanner, London, 1985.
Ø 76. STEPPING OUT,  including "Stepping out"; "As Fast As Possible II"; "Developing Imminence"; parts of The Art of Flight,  Pig Press, Durham,1989.
Ø 77. went to new,  including "how can this ever be enough,"  parts in STEPPING OUT,  af76 and parts in Response,  Wales, 1991.
G 78. AFRICAN BOOG,  including poems from 1979-82, Ta'wil Books, London,1983.
 79. From the papers of Rose Dinely,  included in Australian Anthology of British Poetry, 1984.
 80. "FRESH BREATH", in CLOTHES,  Spanner, London, 1983.
 81. ANTIFERENCE,  how works listed 1-80 and the paintings relate.  A kind of catalogue with commentaries and access notes.  Electronic Poetry Center web site, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and elsewhere.
G, S 82. BANDA,  Spanner jointly with Open Field, London, 1983 (republished in af86).
 83. BENDING WINDOWS,  Spanner visual text edition, London, 1983.
G, S 84. BOOGIE BREAK, Torque Editions, Southampton, 1985 (republished in af88).
 85. Necessary Business,  Spanner, London, 1985  (1992 rewritten version published in    af120).
G 86. BRIXTON FRACTALS,  Aloes Books, London, 1985.  Republished in Canada by     Tsunami, Vancouver, Canada, 1999.
G, S 87. BUZZARDS AND BEES,  Spanner, London, 1986, republished Microbrigade,     London, 1987 (published again in af88).
G 88. BREADBOARD, poems 1986-1987,  Spanner Editions, 1994.
 89. "Necessary Contradiction", regarding the early work of R.B. Kitaj,  TALUS,  King’s College, London, 1987.
 90 "Assumptions Table", with Steve Benson and Cris Cheek, in Sulfur,  Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1987.
G, S 91. "Camel Walk",  Spanner broad sheet, London, 1988 (republished in af93).
 92. "Towards Civic Production", in Reality Studios,  London, 1988.
G 93. CIVIC CRIME, poems 1987-1988, Sound and Language, Lowestoft, 1995.
G, S 94. ACCOUNTS,  in TALUS,  London and York, 1992.  (republished in af105).
V, Ø 95. AMNESIC INSTANT,  Spanner, Hereford, 1989.
 96. FUTURE EXILES,  (a selection of work 1981-88) with Brian Catling and Bill Griffiths, Paladin, 1992.
G 97. CONVALESCENCE, (with part of Burn Back ) Wiwaxia, London, l992 republished, without Burn Back , in af105.
 98. SCRAM, or the transformation of the concept of cities,  selected poems 1971-1982, Spectacular Diseases, Peterborough, 1994.  An audio-cassette from the selection    published by Spanner, 1993.
 99. "BREAKS MARGIN", part published as "Post-Modernism as Package", Poetics Journal,  1987 and part in First Offence,  Kent, 1993.
 100. "Invented World, The consequences of Barrett Watten's conceptually emphatic texts", Aerial 8,   Edge Books, Washington DC, 1995.
 101. "Plurality and the Reproduced, A Selective Approach to the Visual  Arts of America in  the 1950s", in Cracking the Ike Age,  Dolphin, Aarhus, Denmark,1993.
G 102. HORSE AND HUBBLE,  1991-1992, RWC, Surrey, 1992 (republished in  af105).
G 103. "Jerk", Ta'wil broad sheet, Encinitas, 1991.
 104. "Plural Real", Eonta. journal,  1997.
G 105. DISPOSSESSION AND CURE,  poems 1988-1991,  Reality Street, London,1994.
G 106. FISH JET,  (1989-92) Torque Press, Southampton, (corrected print)1997.
G 107. JIG WALK,  broad sheet, Prima Arts Centre, 1992, reprinted Spanner, 1993     (republished in af108).
G 108. Now's the time,  (1992) Form Books, London, 1995.
G 109. FIZZ,  1992-93, Spanner, 1993.
VT 110. Lifting from fear,  poster edition, Spanner & King's Manor Gallery, York, 1993.
 111. Traps or Tools and Damage, with A.L. Payne's States of Mind,  Hereford City Museum and Art Gallery catalogue, 1994.
 112. "Snarling Complexity, Discussing aspects of the epic mode and the work of Gilbert Adair," Pages,  Surrey, 1994.
G 113. Philly Dog,  Spanner, 1995.
G 114. PULLING UP/QUASI QUEEN,  Spanner 1996.
 115. "Notes for the Conference Contemporary Poetry and Performance,"fragmente issue 7, Skegness, 1997.
 116. Worlds of New Measure,   An Anthology of Five Contemporary British Poets, (Thomas A. Clark, Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Barry MacSweenery and Eric Mottram)    edited by Clive Bush, Talus Editions, London, 1997. [In parallel with Out of Dissent, by   Clive Bush, Talus Editions, 1997, discussing the same poets.]
 117. "Aspects of Simulation and Discourse in Sir Edward John Poynter's Painting Isræl in Egypt, 1985, Talus  9/10, 1997.
 118. Emergent Manner , Spanner, 1999.
 119. "The Poetics of the Complexity Manifold", Boundary 2, vol.26, no.1, Duke University    Press, 1999.
 120. Topological Shovel, The Gig, Ontario, 1999 (including the rewritten "Necessary Business" af85,  "Thumbnail Lecture" af53, "The Mathematics of Rimbaud" af59, and  "Topological Shovel" af68.
  121. 'The Crisis of Spacetime', Living in a Material World conference papers, Coventry University, 1999.
G 122. Ring Shout, Equipage, Jesus College, Cambridge, 2000.
G 123. Winging Step, Spanner, 2000.
G 124. Woodpecker, Spanner, 2000.
G 125. Sojourns, Wild Honey Press, Eire, 2000.
 126. ‘Diligence and Dilemmas and Aspects of Work By Brian Catling: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Performance’ chapter in Tending the Virtex, edited by Simon Perril, Cambridge: CCCP Books, 2001.
G 127. WATUSI, Spanner, 2001.
G 128. VOLESPIN, Spanner, 2002.
129.  Traps or Tools and Damage, Lecture, University of Surrey Roehampton, 2002.