Awards and Recognition
- 1979 Commonwealth Poetry Prize
- 1985 J.C. Reid Memorial Prize
- 1993 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- 1997 appointed Canterbury Writer in Residence
- 2003 appointed Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate
- 2009 (New Zealand) Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry
- 2010 Poetry Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards
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