Poetry
- Conacre: A Poem (Belfast: [priv.] 1943),
- Compass: Two Poems (Belfast: [priv.] 1944),
- No Rebel Word: Poems, (London: Frederick Muller 1948),
- Those Swans Remember (Belfast: [priv.] 1956),
- An Ulster Reckoning (Coventry [priv.; 5 Postbridge Rd. 1971),
- The Chinese Fluteplayer (Lambeg: To Morrows Press 1974),
- Scissors for a One-armed Tailor: Marginal Verses 1929-1954 (Belfast: [s.n.], 1974),
- Out of My Time: Poems 1967-1974 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1974),
- Time Enough: Poems New and Revised (Blackstaff Press 1976),
- The Rain Dance: Poems New and Revised (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1978),
- Kites in Spring: A Belfast Boyhood (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1980),
- Mosaic (Belfast: Blackstaff Press (assisted by NI Arts Council 1981),
- Loose Ends (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1985),
- Freehold and Other Poems (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1986).
Selected & Collected editions
- Collected Poems 1932-1967 (London: MacGibbon & Kee 1968),
- John Hewitt & John Montague, The Planter and the Gael (NI Arts Council 1970),
- Alan Warner, ed., Selected John Hewitt (Blackstaff Press 1981),
- The Collected Poems of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1992),
- Michael Longley & Frank Ormsby, Selected Poems of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2007).
Prose
- Ancestral Voices: the selected prose of John Hewitt (Ed. Tom Clyde) (Blackstaff Press, 1987).
Drama
- Two Plays: The McCrackens, The Angry Dove, (Lagan Press, 1999).
Art Criticism
- Colin Middleton (Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1976),
- Art in Ulster (with Mike Catto) (Blackstaff Press, 1977),
- John Luke (artist) 1906–1975 (Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1978).
As Editor
- The Poems of William Allingham (Oxford University Press/ Dolmen Press, 1967).
Compiled by Bruce Stewart:
- Conacre: A Poem (Belfast: [priv.] 1943), 10pp. [ded. John Betjeman];
- Compass: Two Poems (Belfast: [priv.] 1944), 10pp.;
- No Rebel Word: Poems, intro. by Geoffrey Taylor (London: Frederick Muller 1948), 56pp. [incl. ‘Once Alien Here’];
- Those Swans Remember (Belfast: [priv.] 1956), 6pp. [wrappers];
- An Ulster Reckoning (Coventry [priv.; 5 Postbridge Rd. 1971), 16pp.
- The Chinese Fluteplayer (Lambeg: To Morrows Press [1974], pp. [ltd. edn. of 200.]
- Scissors for a One-armed Tailor: Marginal Verses 1929-1954 (Belfast: [s.n.], 1974), pp. [25cm].
- Out of My Time: Poems 1967-1974 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1974), -62pp.;
- Time Enough: Poems New and Revised (Blackstaff Press 1976), 119pp.;
- The Rain Dance: Poems New and Revised (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1978), 50pp.;
- Kites in Spring: A Belfast Boyhood (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1980), 64pp.;
- Mosaic (Belfast: Blackstaff Press (assisted by NI Arts Council 1981), 48pp.;
- Loose Ends (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1985), 52pp.;
- Freehold and Other Poems (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1986), 72pp.;
Selected & Collected edns:
- Collected Poems 1932-1967 (London: MacGibbon & Kee 1968), 144pp.;
- John Hewitt & John Montague, The Planter and the Gael (NI Arts Council 1970), 23pp.;
- Alan Warner, ed., Selected John Hewitt (Blackstaff Press 1981), 119pp.;
- Frank Ormsby, ed. & intro., The Collected Poems of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1992), lxxiv,708pp. [intro. & chronology uses John Hewitt Collection at University of Ulster];
- Michael Longley & Frank Ormsby, Selected Poems of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2007), xxvii, 140pp;