Lines for the Last Day (1960)
The Mackenzie Poems (1966)
Miraculous Montages (1966)
The Great Wall of China (1966, 1996)
William Lyon Mackenzie Rides Again! (1967)
Abracadabra (1967)
John Toronto (1969)
Neo Poems (1970)
The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1971)
Leonardo’s Lists (1972)
Praise Poems (1972)
Translations from the English (1974)
The Sad Truths (1974)
The Great Collage (1974)
Proverbial Play (1975)
Mostly Monsters (1977, 1995)
Variable Cloudiness (1977)
Private Parts (1978)
The Great Cities of Antiquity (1979)
Selected Poems (1982)
Selected Translations (1982)
Recent Poems (1982)
Off Earth (1987)
Luna Park / One Thousand Poems (1994)
Space Poems (1995)
Contrails (1996)
Earlier Lives (1996)
Ether / Rewords (1997)
What Is What (1998)
Interspaces (1999)
Half a World Away (2000)
Impromptus (2000)
Far Star (2001)
Foundlings (2002)
More or Less (2003)
One Hundred Poems (2003)
Ones (2003)
Yes and No (2004)
To Take from Life (2005)
All the Poems of John Robert Colombo (3 volumes, 2005)
Parts of a World (2006)
Autumn in August (2007)
One Word Poems (2008)
End Notes (2008)
A Far Cry (2009)
End of Greatness (2010)
Poems of Space and Time (2010)
Entresol (2011)
Less of Light (2012)
A Standing Wave (2013)
A World of Differences (2014)
Late in the Day (2015)
Immense Estates (2016)
Poetry Anthologies
The Varsity Chapbook (1959)
Poetry 64 / Poésie 64 (1963)
Shapes & Sounds (1968)
How Do I Love Thee (1970)
New Direction in Canadian Poetry (1971)
Rhymes and Reasons (1971)
Trio (1975)
The Poets of Canada (1978)
We Stand on Guard (1985, 1998)
James Gay: Master of All Poets (1996)
The Penguin Treasury of Popular Canadian Poems and Songs (2002)
