Honours and Awards
- 1970: Cholmondeley Award
- 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1983: Fulbright Fellowship
- 1987: Companion of Honour of Barbados (CHB)
- 1994: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- 1999: Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from International Poetry Forum
- 2002: Honorary doctorate, University of Sussex
- 2006: Griffin Poetry Prize, International Winner
- 2006: Gold Musgrave Medal for Literature from the Institute of Jamaica
- 2010: W. E. B. DuBois Award
- 2011: Casa de las Americas Premio
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