June 2011
Swimming awarded third prize at the Ashbourne Festival, in a dream a robin commended.
April 2011
Sky, falling awarded first prize in the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Competition
December 2010 the bird who makes you afraid shortlisted for the 2010 Basil Bunting Prize
The Glorious Fellowship of Migraineurs commended in the 2010 Troubadour Prize
Awarded an ACE grant to complete work on ‘The Somnographist’ (shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award, 2010)
April 2010 Kindling commended by Liz Lochhead in the 2010 Wigtown prize
September 2009 When I lived alone commended by Robert Crawford in the Robert McLellan Competition, 2009.
June 2009 ‘bone song’ shortlisted for the inaugural Michael Marks Pamphlet Award
December 2008 1st prize in the 2008 Troubadour Coffee House Poetry Competition for Colony Collapse Disorder
April 2008 Commissioning of the poem Seven Nights of Uncreation following an open competition by The Arts Council England, as part of a project commemorating the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, 1807
March 2008 Tree Dreams shortlisted in The National Sonnet Competition, 2007
May 2004 3rd Prize, Strokestown International Poetry Competition for The Sangreal
December 2003 Walking the Dog – Best Dressed Poet 2003 (!)
June 2002 The Sarah James Poetry Prize, Queen Mary College for The Most Dangerous of All