Awards
- 1983: Commonwealth Poetry Prize (for I is a Long Memoried Woman)
- 1986: Arts Council Writers' Award
- 1996: Guyana Poetry Prize (for Sunris)
- 2000: Cholmondeley Award
- 2007: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 2008: Guyana Poetry Award Never live unloved
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