Awards and Honours
- 1961: Festival of Wellington Poetry Award
- 1964: New Zealand State Literary Fund Award
- 1968: Buckland Award (New Zealand)
- 1968: Jessie Mackay Prize (New Zealand)
- 1972: Jessie Mackay Prize (New Zealand)
- 1976: Cholmondeley Award (United Kingdom)
- 1979: Buckland Award (New Zealand)
- 1984: New Zealand National Book Award
- 1984: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1988: Arts Council Writers' Award (United Kingdom)
- 1996: Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to New Zealand literature
- 2006: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (United Kingdom)
- 2008: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.
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