Awards
- National Magazine Award for Poetry, Gold 1978
- Nominated for the 1984 Governor General's Award (The Sunday Before Winter)
- National Magazine Award for Poetry, Silver 1989
- Long Poem Prize, The Malahat Review, 1994
- Pat Lowther Award for poetry, 1997 (Autobiography)
- Nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Award (Autobiography)
- Nominated for the 1997 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (Autobiography)
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, 1998 (Visible Worlds)
- Short-listed for the Orange Prize, 1999 (Visible Worlds)
- Short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, 2004 (The Alchemy of Happiness)
- Short-listed for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 2007 (What It Takes to Be Human)
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