Awards and Plaudits

•    Albie’s Boys received a ‘commended’ in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2011 International Poetry Competition

•    Canterbury visit, Winter 1982 was awarded equal first place in the Australian Yellow Moon 2006 Spirit of Place competition

•    Consultant Rules, OK was shortlisted in the Kilkenny International Swift Society’s 2007 Swift Satire Poetry Competition

•    Missing received a ‘commended’ in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2015 International Poetry Competition

•    National Anthem was awarded a ‘highly commended’ in the Australian Yellow Moon 2006 Spirit of Place competition

•    Tongues of Ash, published by Brisbane-based trans-Tasman publisher Interactive Publications (IP) was awarded the publisher's 2011 'IP Picks Best First Book' prize.

•    The Head of Department’s Prayer on a change of Government was described as ‘just so gold’ by Tilly Lloyd of Unity Books in a review of Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems on National Radio in August 2017

•    The Snow Sayer received a ‘commended’ in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2006 International Poetry Competition

•    The West Winds Gang is back was awarded first place in the International Tertiary Student Poetry section of the 2009 Australian Bauhinia Literary Awards

•    Town statue talk was awarded a ‘highly commended’ in the Tertiary Student Poetry section of the 2009 Australian Bauhinia Literary Awards