Richard Owens is the author of several collections of poetry, including Delaware Memoranda (2008), Ballads (2012 and 2015), and Poems (2019). He is the founding editor of the poetry and poetics journal Damn the Caesars and Punch Press, a small literary press based in the US which has since 2005 produced both handmade and trade editions of work by contemporary poets on both sides of the Atlantic. Some of his criticism on British and American poetry from a Marxist perspective can be found in the volume Sauvage: Essays on Anglophone Poetry (2019).