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Poems (1939) was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s. As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973. The poet John Fuller is his son.

Books

• Poems (1939)
• The Middle of a War (1942)
• A Lost Season (1944),
• Savage gold (1946)
• Epitaphs and Occasions (1949)
• Counterparts (1954)
• Brutus’s Orchard (1957)
• New poems (1968)
• Off course: Poems (1969)
• The carnal island (1970)
• Seen grandpa lately? (1972)
• Song cycle from a record sleeve (1972)
• Tiny tears (1973)
• Owls and artificers: Oxford lectures on poetry (1974)
• Professors and Gods: Last Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1975)
• From the joke shop (1975)
• The joke shop annexe (1975)
• An ill-governed coast: Poems (1976)
• Poor Roy (1977)
• The reign of sparrows (1980)
• Souvenirs (1980)
• Fellow mortals: An anthology of animal verse (1981)
• More about Tompkins, and other light verse (1981)
• House and shop (1982)
• The individual and his times: A selection of the poetry of Roy Fuller (1982) with V. J. Lee
• Vamp till ready: Further memoirs (1982)
• Upright downfall (1983) with Barbara Giles and Adrian Rumble,
• As from the thirties (1983)
• Home and dry: Memoirs III (1984)
• Mianserin sonnets (1984)
• Subsequent to summer (1985)
• Twelfth night: A personal view (1985)
• New and collected poems, 1934-84 (1985)
• Outside the canon (1986)
• Murder in mind (1986)
• The second curtain (1986)
• Image of a society (1987)
• Lessons of the summer (1987)
• The ruined boys (1987)
• Consolations (1987)
• Available for dreams (1989)
• Stares (1990)
• Spanner and pen: Post-war memoirs (1991)