Recognition
Smith won the 1943 Governor General's Award for poetry or drama for his own first collection of poetry, News of the Phoenix and Other Poems.
In 1966 the Royal Society of Canada awarded him its Lorne Pierce Medal.
On Smith's retirement in 1972, Michigan State University established the A.J.M. Smith Award, given annually to a noteworthy volume by a Canadian poet.
Smith's poem "The Lonely Land" was set to music by Violet Archer in 1978.
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