Original volumes

• Mala'ika wa shayatin (Angels and Devils), 1950
• Abariq muhashshama, 1954
• Risala ila Hazim Hikmet wa quas'aid ukhra, 1956
• Al-Majd li al-atfal wa al-zaytun, 1956
• Ash'ar fi al-manfa, 1957
• Ishrun qasida min Berlin, 1959
• Kalimat la tamut, 1960
• Muhakama fi Nisabur, 1963
• Al-Nar wa al-kalimat, 1964
• Sifr al-faqr wa al-thawra, 1965
• Alladhi ya'ti wa laya'ti, 1966
• Al Mawt fi al Hayat, 1968
• Tajribati al-shi'riyya, 1968
• 'Ulyun al-kilab al-mayyita, 1969
• Buka'iyya ila shams haziran wa al-murtaziqa, 1969
• Al Kitaba al Teen, 1970
• Yawmiyyat siyasi muhtarif, 1970
• Qasaid hubb 'ala bawwabat al-'alam al-sab, 1971
• Sira dhatiyya li sariq al-nar, 1974
• Kitab al-bahr, 1974
• Qamar Shiraz, 1976
• Mamlakat al-sunbula, 1979
• Sawt al-sanawat al-daw'iyya, 1979
• Bustan 'A'isha, 1989
• Al-Bahr Ba'id, Asma'uh Yatanahhud (The Sea is Distant, I Hear It Sighing), 1998

Translated volumes

• Lilies and Death, 1972 (trans. Mohammed B. Alwan)
• The Singer and the Moon, 1976 (trans. Abdullah al-Udhari)
• Eye of the Sun, 1978
• Love Under Rain (Al-hubb tahta al-matar), 1985 (transl. Desmond Stewart and George Masri)
• Love, Death, and Exile, 1990 (trans. Bassam K. Frangieh)

Anthologies with only works by Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati's Poetry

• Poet of Iraq: Abdul Wahab al-Bayati. An introductory essay with translations by Desmond Stewart, 1976
• Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, 1979 (a short introduction and four poems, trans. Desmond Stewart and George Masri)

Anthologies with works by Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati and other poets

• Abdullah al-Udhari, ed. and trans. Modern Poetry of the Arab World. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1986.
  • An Apology for a Short Speech
  • The Arab Refugee
  • The Fugitive
  • Hamlet
  • Profile of the Lover of the Great Bear
  • To Earnest Hemingway
• Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed. Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Columbia UP, 1987
  • The Birth of Aisha and Her Death
  • Eligy for Aisha
  • The Impossible
  • Luzumiyya
• Simawe, Saadi ed. Iraqi Poetry Today (ISBN 095338246X). London: King's College, London 2003
  • The Dragon
  • An Elegy to Aisha
  • I am Born and I Burn in My Love
  • Love Under The Rain
  • The Nightmare
  • Nine Riba'iyat
  • Shiraz Moon
  • Three Riba'iyat
  • To Naguib Mahfouz [Amman, 15 April 1997]
  • To TS Eliot
  • Transformations of Aisha: Aisha's Birth and Death in the Magical Rituals Inscribed in Cuneiform on the Nineveh Tablets
  • Two Poems for my son, Ali
  • Who Owns the Homeland?
  • Writing on Aisha's Tomb