Awards
- 1965 – winner of the Myer Poetry Prize
- 1967 – winner of the Ampol Arts Award for Creative Literature
- 1968 – winner of the Myer Poetry Prize
- 1973 – winner of the Dame Mary Gilmore Medal
- 1978 – winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
- 1979 – winner of the Braille Book of the Year
- 1980 – winner of the Patrick White Literary Award
- 1984 – winner of the Christopher Brennan Award
- 1990 – Paul Harris Fellowship of Rotary International
- 1992 – made an Officer of the Order of Australia: "In recognition of service to Australian literature, particularly in the field of poetry"
- 1996 – Alumni Award by the University of New England
- 1997 – winner of the inaugural Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival
- 2000 – Australian Council for the Arts Emeritus Writers Award for his long and outstanding contribution to Australian literature
- 2001 – awarded the Centenary Medal for "distinguished service to the arts through poetry"
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