Poet Honours

Short list, Governor-General's Award for Poetry

Silver Jubilee Medal

Sir William Browne medal for epigrams

Sir William Browne medal for Greek ode

Sociétié Gens de Lettres

Songwriters Hall of Fame

St. Lucia Cross

Statue in New York's Central Park (1877).

Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award

Sydney Morning Herald contest

Taylorian scholarship for French and Italian

Tel Aviv Foundation Prize

The Audre Lorde Poetry Award

The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 1998

The Griffin Prize

The Journey Prize (Finalist)

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Order of the Rio Branco (Brazil)

The Wynne Francis Award. Concordia University

This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt

Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Trillium Book Award for Poetry (Finalist)

Trillium Poetry Award (Finalist)

Trinity scholarship

U. S. Poet Laureate

UBC Medal for Biography

University Gold Medal in logic & mental philosophy

University of Michigan, honorary degree

University of Winnipeg Undergraduate Research Awar

University of Winnipeg Writer's Circle Prize

Vice-president of London Library

Villa Waldberta Scholarship, Munich

Visiting Writer, University of Texas at Austin

Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University

Wallace Stevens Award

Walrus Poetry Prize (Finalist)

Western Magazine Award for Travelogue

White House Salute to Poetry and American Poets

William Carlos Williams Prize, Poetry Society of A

William Foyle Prize

Wilson MacDonald Memorial School Museum

Women's Canadian Club

Wyfold Cup, Henley (rowing)

“Discovery”/The Nation Prize

“Voronezh”: Grain Magazine’s prose poetry competition