Awards
- 1988 Eric Gregory Award[131]
- 1989 Zoom! made a Poetry Book Society Choice[132]
- 1992 Forward Poetry Prize for Kid[133][131]
- 1993 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year[131]
- 1994 Lannan Award[131]
- 1995 Forward Poetry Prize for The Dead Sea Poems[133]
- 1998 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year for All Points North[131]
- 2003 BAFTA winner[131]
- 2003 Ivor Novello Award for song-writing[131]
- 2004 Fellow of Royal Society for Literature[131]
- 2005 Spoken Word Award (Gold) for The Odyssey[131]
- 2006 Royal Television Society Documentary Award for Out of the Blue[134]
- 2008 The Not Dead (C4, Century Films) Mental Health in the Media Documentary Film Winner[135]
- 2010 Seeing Stars made a Poetry Book Society Choice[136]
- 2010 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry[137]
- 2010 Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to literature[136]
- 2012 The Death of King Arthur made Poetry Book Society Choice[136]
- 2012 Hay Festival Medal for Poetry[138]
- 2012 T S Eliot Prize, shortlist, The Death of King Arthur[139]
- 2015 Oxford professor of poetry (4-year appointment)[140]
- 2017 PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize for Pearl: A New Verse Translation[141]
- 2018 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry "for his body of work"[142]
- 2019 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, appointed for 10 years[11][143]
Honorary degrees
- 1996 Doctor of Letters, University of Portsmouth
- 1996 Honorary Doctorate, University of Huddersfield
- 2009 Honorary Doctorate, Sheffield Hallam University[144]
- 2011 Doctor of the University, The Open University
- 2015 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Leeds[145]
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