[3] He is the author of a suite of poems, Seasonal (1984), a long poem, A Buddha Named Baudelaire (1988), two other collections of poetry and a collection of fiction, What Men Know About Women (1999), an illustrated children's title Elf the Eagle (2007) which was short-listed for the BC Book Prizes and the Saskatchewan Young Readers Award, The Shining Willow Award, a biography, Kid Dynamite: The Gerry James Story, about a remarkable athlete who at one time held 18 CFL records and in one year competed for the Grey Cup as a Winnipeg Blue Bomber and the Stanley Cup as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs (2011), and a memoir, The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke (2016), which was long-listed for the George Ryga award and won the Independent Publisher IPPY Gold Medal in the States for autobiography/memoir (2017).
In 2020 he co-authored and published a medical memoir with Dr. Bernard Binns entitled: Improbable Journeys: from Crossing the Himalayas on Horseback to a Career in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Over the past forty years he has been invited to give public readings or lectures at universities and schools across Canada, in the States (at UC Berkeley, Gonzaga, Western Washington, ASU, Washington State), England (at London Polytechnic, Leeds), Italy (at the universities of Rome, Bologna, Venice, Udine, Siena, Pescara, where he was guest lecturer in the North American Studies Program), and in Albania.
Smith also reviews books, and co-edited the anthology of Canadian West Coast short fiction: Rainshadow: Stories from Vancouver Island (1982).
He also edited Poetry Hotel: Selected Poems by Joe Rosenblatt (1985), the Collected Works of Ralph Gustafson, vol.