Poetry - Individual Publications

Note - several poems can be found within Clive's novels, especially the Abarat series. The titles below draw attention to those which have enjoyed either additional or new publication elsewhere.

There Was A Time

Full Text In :
FIRE MASS, No 1, April 2010.
MULTIVERSES - edited by Preston Grassman, Titan Books, 2023.

I Dreamed I Spoke In Another's Language

Full Text In :
ABARAT: DAYS OF MAGIC, NIGHTS OF WAR, Joanna Cotler Books, 2004
BENEATH THE SURFACE OF CLIVE BARKER'S ABARAT - edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2011.
MULTIVERSES - edited by Preston Grassman, Titan Books, 2023.

And So With Cries

Full Text In :
DARK DELICACIES 3 - edited by Del Howison, Jeff Gelb, Perseus Books, USA, 2009.
DARK DELICACIES 3 - edited by Del Howison, Jeff Gelb, Running Press, USA, 2009.
DARK DELICACIES 3 - edited by Del Howison, Jeff Gelb, Ace Books, USA, 2011.
DARK DELICACIES 3 - edited by Del Howison, Jeff Gelb, JABberwocky Literary Agency, USA, 2019.
SORBET - issue 26, Winter 2019.

An April Christmas

Full Text In :
MEMORY, PROPHECY AND FANTASY VOLUME 1 - LIVERPOOL LIVES - by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2009.

Hours, Tailor Schmidt, Amos' Poem, Peter the Piddle

Full Text In :
BENEATH THE SURFACE OF CLIVE BARKER'S ABARAT - edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2011.

Proving Plato

Full Text In :
GAUNTLET PRESS SAMPLER - Gauntlet Press, USA, 2001.

At A Rehearsal

Full Text In :
MEMORY, PROPHECY AND FANTASY VOLUME 2 - DOG TALES - by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2010.

I Dreamed A Limitless Book

Full Text In :
ABARAT, Joanna Cotler Books, 2004
BENEATH THE SURFACE OF CLIVE BARKER'S ABARAT - edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2011.

Rocco, The Moustache, The Colours, Insolence, The Exorcist, Interruptions of Light, Contrary Ideas on Health and numerous untitled pieces

Full Text In :
MEMORY, PROPHECY AND FANTASY VOLUME 3 - MASQUERADES - by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2014.

Touch the Rod

Full Text In :
RARE FLESH, Universe/Rizzoli, 2003
TONIGHT AGAIN, Subterranean Press, 2015
TONIGHT AGAIN, SST Publications, 2018.

Cruelty

Full Text In :
RARE FLESH, Universe/Rizzoli, 2003
TONIGHT AGAIN, Subterranean Press, 2015
TONIGHT AGAIN, SST Publications, 2018.

Here is Laid, Mater Salvatoris, Until the Beginning Comes, I Am Tired of Beauty, We Got Into Bed, Youth Inhabits his Face, Bird You Fly So Fast, Burn Me! Hurt Me!, I Dream of Broken Hearts Tonight, I Will Be a Lobster, Love is Love, There'd Be No Love, Your Life is Shit, My Lover Agreed to Something, Existence, White Whiskered Bart

Full Text In :
RARE FLESH, Universe/Rizzoli, 2003.

There'll Be No Sun Tomorrow, Dream!, Oh Sweet Children, As Thorn and Flower, The Magic of the Circle, No Need to Fear the Beast, A Man Will Always, Night Comes Down, The Place is Where, Hopelessness is Reasonable

Full Text In :
ABARAT: ABSOLUTE MIDNIGHT, Joanna Cotler Books, 2011.

I Love You, If the Pen is the Penis, Men in the Aisles of Supermarkets, I Have My Art, A Monster Lies in Wait

Full Text In :
TONIGHT AGAIN, Subterranean Press, 2015
TONIGHT AGAIN, SST Publications, 2018.

Good Art is Hot Bread

Full Text In :
CLIVE BARKER: IMAGINER, VOLUME 4 - edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes, The Clive Barker Archive, 2017.

The Hour

Full Text In :
ABARAT: DAYS OF MAGIC, NIGHTS OF WAR, Joanna Cotler Books, 2004
OUT OF THE RUINS - edited by Preston Grassmann, Titan Books, 2021.

Fear Only

Full Text In :
SCREEN VIOLENCE, A FANZINE BY CHVRCHES, August 2021.

Upon a Milk Warm Dawn

Full Text In :
THE MAD BUTTERFLY'S BALL - edited by Preston Grassmann and Chris Kelso, PS Publishing, 2024.

Amended Text (as 'A Life') In :
RUE MORGUE, Issue 222 - edited by Andrea Subissati, Jan/Feb 2025.

But O!

Full Text In :
ABARAT, Part One, Morningtide, Joanna Cotler Books, 2004
RUE MORGUE, Issue 222 - edited by Andrea Subissati, Jan/Feb 2025.