Awards
- The Bertram Warr Award for a group of poems awarded by Contemporary Verse, 1940
- Oscar Blumenthal Award for a group of poems awarded by Poetry (Chicago), 1944
- The Governor General's Award in Poetry for The Metal and the Flower, 1954
- National Magazines Award (Gold) 1985
- Canadian Authors' Association Literary Award for Poetry, 1985-86
- Brazilian Journal short listed for the Governor-General's Award, 1987
- B.C. Book Prizes Hubert Evans Award for Non-Fiction for Brazilian Journal, 1987
- Banff Centre School of Fine Arts National Award, 1989
- Readers' Choice Award, Prairie Schooner, for a group of poems, 1993
- bpNichol Chapbook Award for Alphabetical, 1999
- Tribute at the Vancouver Writers' Festival, 2000
- Distinguished Writer, Banff, 2002
- Ambassador for the Arts, Mechosin International Summer School of the Arts, 2002
- Tribute at Sechelt Festival of the Arts, 2002
- The Griffin Prize for Poetry - shortlisted for Planet Earth in 2003
- The Terasen Life Time Achievement Award, 2004 (returned)
- The Lieut. Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, 2004
- National Magazines Award (Silver) 2005
Honours
- Academia Brasileira de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, 1959
- Officer of the Order of Canada, 1977
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Victoria, 1977
- Doctor of Letters, (Honoris Causa), University of Victoria, 1985
- Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa), University of Calgary, 1989
- Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa), University of Guelph, 1990
- Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa), Simon Fraser University, 1990
- Doctor of Letters, (Honoris Causa), University of Toronto, 1998
- Companion of the Order of Canada, 1999
- Doctor of Letters, (Honoris Causa), University of Winnipeg, 2001
- Order of British Columbia, 2003
- Doctor of Letters, (Honoris Causa), Trent University, 2004
- Doctor of Letters, (Honoris Causa), University of BC, 2005
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2007
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