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- Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry, 2023: second prize
- Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2022: winner for ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads’
- Australian Prime Ministers Literary Award for Poetry 2017
- Newcastle Poetry Prize 2015.
- The Philip Hodgins Medal. Awarded at the 2015 Mildura Writers Festival
- Newcastle Poetry Prize 2014. (jointly with Debi Hamilton)
- 6th Blake Poetry Prize 2013: winner for ‘Appellations’
- Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2010: winner for ‘Domestic Emergencies’
- The Age Book of the Year Award, Dinny O’Hearn Poetry Prize, 2008: shortlisted for Bark
- Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Arts Queensland, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2008: shortlisted for Bark
- Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2007: shortlisted for ‘Guidance and Knowledge’ (Note: Prize known as the ABR Poetry Prize in 2007.)
- Tasmania Book Prizes, Tasmania Book Prize, 2005: shortlisted for The Sleep of a Learning Man
- The Age Book of the Year Award, poetry, 2004: shortlisted for The Sleep of a Learning Man
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, 2004: shortlisted for The Sleep of a Learning Man
- Colin Roderick Award, 2002: shortlisted for Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 – 2002
- Josephine Ulrick National Poetry Prize, 2001: winner for ‘The Rain’
- Inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award, 1999: winner for New and Selected Poems
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 1997: winner for The Viewfinder
- Grace Perry Memorial Award, 1988: runner-up for ‘Blood Oath’
