Awards

• 2015 inaugural Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award
• 2014, Short list, Newcastle Poetry Prize
• 2014, Short List, FourW poetry prize
• 2013, Long List, Montreal Poetry Prize
• 2013 Hawthornden Fellow, Scotland.
• An Absence of Saints was shortlisted for the 2010/2011 Mary Gilmore Award.
• 2011 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for an extract of poems in a published collection from An Absence of Saints.
•  2010 Anne Elder Poetry Award for a first book of poetry first published in Australia was given to An Absence of Saints.
•  2009 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript of poetry for An Absence of Saints.