[citation needed] She has written eight books including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and her work is collected in many anthologies.
The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, which she co-edited with Kate Llewellyn, became a set text on many writing courses.
A sequence of 23 sonnets about Mozart, Latin, addiction and love, it was recorded for ABC Radio National's program Poetica in 2003.
It tells the story of the three Furies of Ancient Greece who decide to take a holiday from punishing people at the gate of hell and come to contemporary Sydney, stay at the backpackers in Glebe and keep in touch by mobile phone.
In 1977, she was a joint winner of the Patricia Hackett Prize (Westerly), and in 1979 won the Dame Mary Gilmore Award for poetry.
Hampton has also edited trade fiction and non-fiction books including Stravinsky's Lunch (Drusilla Modjeska), Gilgamesh (Joan London), and The Poison Principle (Gail Bell), which have all won major prizes.
Hampton's book News of the Insect World (poems, Five Islands Press, 2009) riffs on infinity, nightclubs, fugues, Caracas, the cordless drill, Dante's Purgatory, and scarabs and dragonflies.