List of awards and prizes

​BOOK AWARDS

Flatlands won the poetry prize in the 2011 EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards and was shortlisted for the 2011 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry.  It also won the International Rubery Book Award in 2014.

Waiting to Tango won Templar Poetry's 2015 Straid Collection Award.

Banquet in the Hall of Happiness won the Munster Literature Centre's international Fool for Poetry chapbook competition in 2015.


POETRY COMPETITIONS

First prize
Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2000
Wigtown Poetry Competition 2009
The New Writer poetry collection prize 2008:
for The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence, a series of dramatic lyrics

Bursary winner
Writers Inc Writers-of-the-Year 2005:
for part of Flatlands prehistory cycle (13 poems)

Second prize
Keats-Shelley Prize joint runner-up 2021
Peterloo Open Poetry Competition 2008
Dulwich Festival International Poetry Competition 1998

Third prize
Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2007
Poetry London competition 2006

Commended
Poetry London Clore Prize 2018
Charles Causley Poetry Competition 2016
Charles Causley Poetry Competition 2014
McLellan Poetry Competition 2014
Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition (finalist) 2013
Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition (finalist) 2012
Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition 2012
Keats-Shelley poetry prize 2010
Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize 2010
Aesthetica Creative Works Competition (finalist) 2010
The New Writer Poetry Prize 2007
Poetry London competition 2005
Lost London: Millennial Poetry Competition 1999
(Blue Nose Poets supported by the Museum of London and the Poetry Society)

Shortlistings
Keats-Shelley poetry prize 2018 and 2010
Manchester Poetry Prize 2013
Charles Causley Poetry Competition 2013
Basil Bunting Poetry Award 2012
Montreal International Poetry Prize 2011
Bridport Poetry Prize 2010, 2019 and 2020
Basil Bunting Poetry Award 2009
The Poetry Business book and pamphlet competition 2008
London Writers' Competition 2002