Prizes and Awards
- 1985 Eric Gregory Award, for poetry
- 1988 Whitbread Award, for poetry, shortlist, Mornings in the Baltic
- 1992 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, for regional literature, Ulverton
- 2007 Forward Poetry Prize, for Best Poetry Collection of the Year, shortlist, Birds with a Broken Wing
- 2010 Walter Scott Prize, for historical fiction, shortlist, Hodd
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