Selected Poems (Allison & Busby, 1971) Company of Women (Sceptre Press, 1971) Incident at West Bay, a poem (The Keepsake Press, 1972) The Winter Man (Allison & Busby, 1973) Wish You Were Here (1973), broadsheet poem Meeting in Manchester (1974) The Apple-Raid and Other Poems (Chatto & Windus, 1974) Three Poets, Two Children: Leonard Clark, Vernon Scannell, Dannie Abse, Answer Questions by Two Children (1975) A Morden Tower Reading (1976) poems, with Alexis Lykiard Not Without Glory: Poets of the Second World War (Woburn Press, 1976), editor Of Love And Music (Mapletree, 1979), poems Loving Game: Poems (Robson Books, 1979) New & Collected Poems 1950–1980 (Robson Books, 1980) Nettles (Robson Books, 1980; as part of New & Collected Poems 1950–1980) Catch the Light (1982), poems, with Gregory Harrison and Laurence Smith Winterlude: Poems (Robson Books, 1982) Funeral Games and Other Poems (Robson Books, 1987) Sporting Literature (Oxford, 1987), editor, anthology The Clever Potato – A Feast of Poetry for Children (Red Fox, 1988) Soldiering On. Poems of Military Life (Robson Books, 1989) Love Shouts and Whispers (Red Fox, 1990) A Time for Fires (Robson Books, 1991), poems Travelling Light (Bodley Head, 1991) The Black and White Days (Robson Books, 1996), poems Collected Poems, 1950–93 (Robson Books, 1998) Feminine Endings (Enitharmon Press, 2000), poems Views and Distances (Enitharmon Press, 2000), poems Of Love & War: New and Selected Poems (Robson Books, 2002) Incendiary The Gunpowder Plot House for Sale Moods of Rain A Case of Murder poems Uncle Albert Hide and Seek Last Post (Shoestring Press, 2007), A Place to Live (The Happy Dragons' Press, 2007) Death of a Snow Man They Did Not Expect This The death of a snowman Autobiography The Tiger and the Rose (Hamish Hamilton, 1972) An Argument of Kings (Parkwest, 1987) A Proper Gentleman (Robson Books, 1977) Drums of Morning – Growing up in the Thirties (Robson Books, 1992) Fiction The Fight (Peter Nevill, 1953), novel The Big Chance (John Long, 1960), novel The Face of the Enemy (Putnam, 1961), novel The Shadowed Place (1961), novel The Big Time (Longmans, 1965), novel Ring of Truth (Robson Books, 1983), novel Other How to Enjoy Novels (Piatkus Books, 1984) How To Enjoy Poetry (Piatkus Books, 1983) A House that Died Verse narration to BBC TV film Further reading James Andrew Taylor: Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, References Sources External