Joseph Brodsky called Derieva "a great poet", stressing that her poems are hers "only by name, only by her craft". "The real authorship belongs here to poetry itself, to freedom itself. I have not met anything similar for a long time, neither among my fellow countrymen nor among English-speaking poets".
Tomas Venclova has stated that " Regina Derieva was, first and foremost, a Christian poet, a worthy heir of a long line of
metaphysical poets, be they English, French or Russian. Far from any inflated rhetoric or didactics, her poems reached the very core of the Christian experience, which meant serious and fearless attitude to life, suffering and death. The imagery and syntax of the Gospels and the Books of Prophets was, for her, a natural element just as apocalyptic presentiments and mystical hope formed the axis of her world-outlook".
Les Murray has a blurb on the back cover of Derieva's Alien Matter : ”Science teaches that eighty percent of the universe consists of dark matter, so called. Regina Derieva learned this same fact in a very hard school. She does not consent to it, though. She knows that the hurt truth in us points to a dimension where, for example, victory is cleansed of battle. Her strict, economical poems never waver from that orientation”.
The volume of poetry, memoirs, essays, fiction, and photographs in honor of Regina Derieva, Curator Aquarum, was published in 2015.[4] Her papers are at Stanford University.[5][6]
A Collection of Roads: Selected Poems (Russian: Собрание дорог). St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2005.
Alien Matter. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2005.
Allt som tolv kejsare inte hunnit säga (in Swedish and English). Stockholm: Ars Interpres Publications, 2006.
Oavbrutet svarta bilder. Göteborg: Carl Forsbergs bokförlag, 2007.
The sum total of violations. Translated by
Daniel Weissbort. UK: Arc Publications, 2009.Regina Derieva with
Daniel Weissbort at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm. Ars Interpres Poetry Festival, October, 2004.
Corinthian Copper. Translated by
J. Kates. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI: Marick Press, 2010.
Chleb i Sól. Poznań: Flos Carmeli, 2015.
Selected poetry & prose in 2 volumes (Russian: Сочинения Регины Дериевой). St. Petersburg: Zhurnal "Zvezda", 2015.