- 1983: Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for his first Collected Poems
- 1988: Whitbread Poetry Award for Automatic Oracle
- 1990: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Possible Worlds
- 1997: Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize Co-winner for Dragons in their Pleasant Palaces
- 1998: The First King's Lynn Award for Merit in Poetry
- 2000: Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival[11]
- 2002: Forward Poetry Prize for Max Is Missing
- 2002: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- 2004: Medal of the Order of Australia[12]
- 2004: Honorary Fellow of the English Association, UK
- 2007: Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
- 2009: Honorary Doctorate, Nottingham Trent University
- 2009: Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize for Better Than God
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