Awards
- 1983 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for his first Collected Poems
- 1988 Whitbread Poetry Award for Automatic Oracle
- 1990 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Possible Worlds
- 1997 Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize Co-winner for Dragons in their Pleasant Places
- 1998 The First King's Lynn Award for Merit in Poetry
- 2000 Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival
- 2002 Forward Poetry Prize for Max Is Missing
- 2002 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- 2004 Medal of the Order of Australia
- 2004 Honorary Fellow of the English Association, UK
- 2007 Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
- 2009 Honorary Doctorate, Nottingham Trent University
- 2009 Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize for Better Than God
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