 In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.His sixth collection, "Drysalter" won the 2013 Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.His continuing collaboration with composer James MacMillan has led to two BBC Proms choral commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and a new opera for the Welsh National Opera, "The Sacrifice", which won the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Award.