- 1984 – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The People's Other World
- 1989 – Creative Arts Fellowship
- 1989 – Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature[22]
- 1990 – Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Dog Fox Field
- 1993 – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Translations from the Natural World
- 1995 – Petrarca-Preis (Petrarch Prize)
- 1996 – T. S. Eliot Prize for Subhuman Redneck Poems
- 1997 – Rated by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.[3][4]
- 1998 – Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- 2001 – shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize for Learning Human
- 2002 – shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize for Conscious & Verbal
- 2005 – Premio Mondello, Italy for Fredy Neptune
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