- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, for crawlspace, (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing), 2012
- Governor General's Literary Award, for Stumbling in The Bloom (Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books), 2006
- Shortlist, The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, for Water Stair (Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books), 2000
- Shortlist, Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry, for Water Stair, (Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books), 2000
- Shortlist, The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, for The Hour's Acropolis (Madeira Park, BC, Harbour Publishing), 1991
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