Selected Honours and Awards
- 1975: won the Newdigate prize for Oxford undergraduate poetry
- 1976: Eric Gregory Award
- 1981: wins Arvon Foundation's International Poetry Competition with The Letter
- 1984: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984
- 1986: Somerset Maugham Award for The Lamberts
- 1987: Dylan Thomas Prize for Natural Causes
- 1999: appointed Poet Laureate for ten years
- 1994: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, Whitbread Prize for Biography
- 2009: Knighthood
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