- first-prize winner of the 1986 CBC Literary Competition for Poetry for A Natural History of Southwestern Ontatio
- finalist for the Governor General's Award:
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- 1983 for Poetry for Predators of the Adoration: Selected Poems, 1972-82
- 1986 for Poetry for The Immaculate Perception
- 1988 for Poetry for The Radiant Inventory
- 2005 for Acquainted With the Night
- finalist 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction for Acquainted With the Night
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