National Magazine Award for Poetry, Gold 1978 Nominated for the 1984 Governor General's Award (The Sunday Before Winter) National Magazine Award for Poetry, Silver 1989 Long Poem Prize, The Malahat Review, 1994 Pat Lowther Award for poetry, 1997 (Autobiography) Nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Award (Autobiography) Nominated for the 1997 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (Autobiography) Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, 1998 (Visible Worlds) Short-listed for the Orange Prize, 1999 (Visible Worlds) Short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, 2004 (The Alchemy of Happiness) Short-listed for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 2007 (What It Takes to Be Human)