* The New Voices: Contemporary South African Poets. Johannesburg: AD.Donker, 1989. (Poetry collection)
* The Poetry of the First World War. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1991. (Nonfiction)
* Living Space: A Storyteller's Journey into Rural India. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 1998. (Nonfiction travelogue)
* Dust. Houghton, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2004. (Poetry collection)
* A Quiet Fire: Collected Poems 1982-2012. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2013. (Poetry collection)
* The Water Diviner. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016. (Poetry collection)
In addition to these published works, Margaret Ellen Truter has contributed poems, articles, and essays to various literary journals, anthologies, and newspapers in South Africa and internationally. She has also edited several anthologies of South African poetry.