Honours and Awards
She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Dundee, the University of Hull, the University of St Andrews, and the University of Warwick, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Homerton College, Cambridge.
- 1983: National Poetry Competition 1st prize (for Whoever She Was)
- 1983 Greenwich Poetry Competition ("for Words of Absolution")
- 1984: Eric Gregory Award
- 1986: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Standing Female Nude)
- 1988: Somerset Maugham Award (for Selling Manhattan)
- 1989: Dylan Thomas Prize
- 1990: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for The Other Country
- 1992: Cholmondeley Award
- 1993: Whitbread Awards (for Mean Time)
- 1993: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Mean Time)
- 1993: Forward Prize (for Mean Time)
- 1995: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1995: Lannan Award
- 1999: Signal Children's Poetry Prize
- 1999: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 2001: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts Award
- 2002: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 2005: T S Eliot Prize (for Rapture)
- 2011: Costa Book Awards (Poetry), winner, The Bees
- 2012 PEN/Pinter Prize
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