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Anthology
Contemporary New Zealand poets in performance (+ 2 sound discs). Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007. Voyager link
Painted poems: one artist, 20 poems. Dunedin: Longacre Press, 2007. Voyager link
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Essay
"Two personal memories of James K. Baxter." Islands 2; Autumn (1973): 2-7.
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Poetry
4 V8 Poems. Dunedin, Caveman Press 1972.
Lipsync 2; Dec (1972): 39-39.
"A short introduction to Zen Buddhism." Boomer (1991): 20-21.
"A visit to Port Chalmers." Otago Daily Times April 11 (2005): 15-15.
"A visit to Port Chalmers; Saturday morning radio." Southern Ocean Review 36; July 12 (2005).
"Above Wakari Road." Otago Daily Times February 13 (2006): 15-15.
After Looking for Broadway. Christchurch, One Eyed Press 1985.
Listener 110.2372; August 10 (1985): 53-53.
Landfall 39; June (1985): 247-250.
"Apples." Otago Daily Times April 11 (2011): 9-9.
"At Murdering Beach." Otago Daily Times April 11 (2005): 15-15.
"At Wellington airport; Doctors rock." Landfall 108; Dec (1973): 337-338.
Ballad of the last cold pie. Lyttelton, Cold Hub Press 2010. Voyager link
Beethovens Guitar. Dunedin, Caveman Press 1980.
Listener 99.2177; October 10 (1981): 100-101.
Landfall 36; Mar (1982): 113-115.
Landfall 36; Mar (1982): 113-115.
"Disjointed on Wellington Railway Station." Best New Zealand Poems (2001).
Doctors Rock. Dunedin, Caveman Press 1976.
Listener 78.1839; March 1 (1975): 29-29.
NZ Bookworld 30; Nov (1976): 32-32.
Landfall 31; Mar (1977): 91-94.
"Evening in the Queens Gardens on Anzac Day." Otago Daily Times June 2 (2008): 19. Voyager link
Exit : Two Poems. Dunedin, John McIndoe 1971.
"Forbury hill (in search of the missing cow)." Otago Daily Times September 3 (2007): 17. Voyager link
Freeway. Dunedin, Caveman Press 1974.
Listener 78.1839; March 1 (1975): 29-29.
New Argot 3.1; Mar (1975): 6-6.
NZ Bookworld 17; Aug (1975): 29-29.
Commonwealth Newsletter 7; Jan (1975): 33-35.
From the slopes of Golgotha. Dunedin, Killmog Press 2009. Voyager link
Graffiti. Paekakariki, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop 2008. Voyager link
"Helicopter ride/cherry farm; From the hut window; Execution of Karla." Glottis 5; (2001): 59-67.
"Holes in a sandstone wall." Otago Daily Times June 1 (2009): 13.
In the dragon cafe. Paekakariki, Killmog Press 2007. Voyager link
It was a Tuesday morning : selected poems, 1972-2001. Christchurch, Hazard Press 2004.
Otago Daily Times sup; July 24 (2004): 5-5.
Listener 194.3353; August 15 (2004): 44-45.
New Zealand Books 15.1; Mar (2005): 19-20.
"Journey to the far South." Glottis 7; (2002): 102-111.
Lady Moss Revived : Poems (from MX Collection 69-72). Dunedin, Caveman Press 1972.
NZ Listener 72.1746; April 30 (1973): 46-46.
Islands 2; Winter (1973): 208-212.
Landfall 27; Dec (1973): 355-358.
"Letter from Seacliff; Therapy over Carisbrook; One morning on the jetty." JAAM: just another art movement 21; Mar (2004): 122-125.
"Lone sailor." Listener 196.3368; November 27 (2004): 41-41.
"Mugshot; Pamela Anderson at St. Clair beach." Southern Ocean Review 35; April 12 (2005).
Music therapy : poems. Paekakariki, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop 2001.
Otago Daily Times sup; October 27 (2001): 37-37.
Listener April 6 (2002): 62-62.
New Zealand Books 12.3; Aug (2002): 9-10.
JAAM: just another art movement 18; Oct (2002): 166-174.
Glottis 7; (2002): 158-159.
Oh, Baxter is everywhere : some Dunedin poems. Dunedin, Square One Press 2003.
"On the edge of the reserve." Listener 198.3386; April 2 (2005): 43-43.
Poetry reading at Kaka Point. Wellington, Steele Roberts 2006. Voyager link
Reaching the Baxters. Paekakariki, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop 2007. Voyager link
Schizophrenic Highway : a Poem. Dunedin, John McIndoe 1971.
Skew whiff: poems. Dunedin, Otakou Press 2011. Voyager link (Note: Images by Kathryn Madill)
"Magnificent fancy scrapbook a delight." Otago Daily Times January 14 (2012): 48.
"Small pictures of Dunedin." Takahe 48; Autumn (2003): 37-38.
"Sunday afternoon on the Omokoroa jetty; At the end of the kiwifruit season; Warning to Southern lovers; Pukeko/Omokoroa sunset." Southern Ocean Review 28; July 12 (2003).
"The buskers." Otago Daily Times December 24 (2007): 13. Voyager link
"The dead womans house; Under Mount Charlotte; The Garden." Takahe 42; April (2001): 20-21.
The Habits You Left Behind. Dunedin, Caveman Press 1973.
Lipsync 2; Dec (1972): 40-40.
The mad elephant. Paekakariki, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop 2006. Voyager link
"The octopus." Broadsheet Night Press 3; (2009): 22. Voyager link
"The painter." Broadsheet Night Press 3; (2009): 21.
"The parson." JAAM: just another art movement 20; Oct (2003): 79-79.
"The waxeye." Otago Daily Times February 13 (2006): 15-15.
"There's still snow on Flagstaff." Otago Daily Times May 12 (2007): 11.
"To a crash-pad." Landfall 106; June (1973): 93-93.
"Walking down Elder Street." Southern Ocean Review 33; October 12 (2004).
"Weka/Gisborne Hospital." Islands 2.4; Summer (1973): 395-396.
 

Works about:

Anthology
Jones, Lawrence. Nurse to the imagination: 50 years of the Robbie Burns Fellowship. University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2008.
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Article
Cook, Marjorie. "Otago five selected among best." University of Auckland, Auckland, Otago Daily Times May 9 (2002): 34-34.
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Essay
Sharkey, Michael. "Gypsies, city streets : four New Zealand poets on the road." Kunapipi 2.2; (1980): 60-74.
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Poetry
Fleming, Greg. "For Peter Olds." Listener 128.2647; December 10 (1990): 114-114.
Orr, Bob. "Jack London (for Peter Olds)." Metro 9.102; Dec (1990): 49-49.
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Thesis
Fleming, Greg. Silence, blank space and the freeway : the poetry of David Mitchell, Alan Loney and Peter Olds. University of Auckland, Auckland, 1990.
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