Shu Xiangcheng has published three poetry collections: "My Lyric Poems" (1965), "Echo Collection" (1970), and "Urban Poetry Notes" (1972), and the income is in "Shu Xiangcheng Anthology" (1979) and some uncollected works in Shuxiang City Volume (1989). Taking "Echo Collection" as a transition reflects the different artistic styles of the two periods before and after Shuxiang City. In the early stage, represented by "My Lyric Poems", he returned from a tired life wandering around the world. His poems often picked up images from nature and conveyed his love and longing for the warmth of the world in sincere and light language. There are light longings (such as "Family") and eager expectations (such as "Fantasy", "Song of Spring", etc.), which form the lyricism of Shu Xiangcheng's poems. However, as the author said: "Because I live in the world and not in heaven", "I cannot be a poet who does not eat the fireworks of the world." The hardships and injustices in the world made it impossible for him to hide his emotions even in his light lyricism. Live the heaviness of reality. He often examines nature from the perspective of social criticism and socializes the images extracted from nature, which forms the characteristic of combining lyricism and criticism in his poetry. He writes about wind, fog, rocks on the seashore, lighthouses and seagulls. With the help of these natural images, the poet embodies a profound, sorrowful and indignant perception of life and historical vicissitudes. The poet once said in the tone of a fish missing the ocean in the bustling market: "People care about my price but don't care about my tears and sadness." The fish's anger is essentially the anger of people.
The poet's penetrating power of thought often reaches the rational space behind it through perceptual images, thereby enhancing the author's rational thinking based on concern for the world.
The sense of historical vicissitudes makes Shu Xiangcheng's poetry reveal dignity in its lightness. He Da once summarized the artistic style of Shuxiangcheng's poetry during this period by saying "heavy weight seems light", which refers to this kind of solemnity containing ideological connotation in light form.