Awards

                                                                                                                                                 2019
Lazarette on Peel Island                                                                        Commended                           Tom Collins Poetry Prize
                                                                                                                                                 2018

On the Day You Launch Winner Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
Windward Commended MPU International Poetry Prize
Desert Island Records Shortlisted KSP Poetry Prize
Once Upon a Time Winner The New Guard Knightville Poetry Competition
Blood Moon Longlisted Lane Cove Literary Awards
The Cold Snap Winner Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
A Giant Highly Commended Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
Precarious Balance Highly Commended Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
A Survey of Australia’s Religions Shortlisted Newcastle Poetry Prize
pH 2nd Prize Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
What We Know About Her 2nd Prize Val Vallis Poetry Prize for a Single Poem
The Tree is Burning Shortlisted Australian Capital University Poetry Prize
Laika Was a Dog Shortlisted Australian Capital University Poetry Prize
Lady With an Ermine Longlisted University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
The Lesson Shortlisted Nillumbik Ekphrastic Poetry Prize
The Darkness Finalist 45th New Millennium Awards
Marine Snow Highly Commended PAVE Woorilla Poetry Prize
The Cursed Ones 2nd Prize Scribe Writers Literary Awards
Yucatan Winner Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
Post Truth 3rd Prize Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
Empty Buildings 2nd Prize (Joint) WB Yeats Poetry Prize
A Kristallnacht Soon to Come Highly Commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize

Fruit Picking Longlisted The Plough Prize (United Kingdom)
Canned Conch Finalist Mississippi Review (United States)

2017

The Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Opens His Dictionary to F Shortlisted Tom Collins Poetry Prize
How Else But the Day Longlisted National Poetry Competition (United Kingdom)
The Prayer of Small Men Commended Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
The Uses of a Shark Highly Commended June Shenfield Poetry Award
The Shore That Shelters My Children 2nd Prize Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
Dinners With Dead People Shortlisted Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize
Gibbous Highly Commended Lane Cove Literary Awards
A Collective of Nouns 2nd Prize Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
Endurance Commended Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
Appraisal 3rd Prize Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
Drone Longlisted Vallum Award for Poetry
New Born Shortlisted ACU Prize for Poetry
Alternative Energy Shortlisted ACU Prize for Poetry
Xeno’s Paradox Longlisted University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
The Haitian Miracle Man 2nd Prize Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
Private Lives Commended Scribe Writers Poetry Prize
The Moth Years 3rd Prize Patrons Prize for Poetry
The Thesaurus Highly Commended Patrons Prize for Poetry
Company Men Shortlisted Newcastle Poetry Prize
Baroque Highly Commended FAWQ Literary Awards
pH Winner Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Reviewing the Waves Commended Eastwood/Hills Fellowship Literary Prize
Knot Commended PAVE/Woorilla Poetry Prize
Returned Longlisted FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award
Rare Birds Shortlisted Henry Kendall Poetry Prize
Signs and Semiotics Highly Commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize
Slow Things 2nd Prize WB Yeats Poetry Prize
A Sky Empty of Birds Winner WB Yeats Poetry Prize
A Solid Octave Shortlisted Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award

2016

What Happened to the Oysters 2nd Prize FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award
The Memory Castle Commended Eastwood/Hills Fellowship Literary Prize
Orange Commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize
The Fade Out Winner Adelaide Plains Poetry Competition
Meta Commended Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
The Treasurer Shortlisted ACU Prize for Poetry
Meditations Shortlisted ACU Prize for Poetry
Peter Cowan Poetry Prize Commended The Saturday Afternoon Football Call
Transfer Failures Shortlisted Newcastle Poetry Prize
Sand Highest Queensland Entry Val Vallis Award
The Cranes Highly Commended Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
Colony Collapse Disorder 2nd Prize Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
Cortege for Richard the Third Commended FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
The Beach Eats Boys 2nd Prize Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
The Child and the Vulture Longlisted Ron Pretty Poetry Prize
Facts and Fantasies Winner KSP Poetry Awards
Rules for the Dead Highly Commended Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize
Extinct Highly Commended Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
Revelation According to Java Highly Commended Glen Phillips Poetry Prize

2015

Leech Evening at Lamington Winner WB Yeats Poetry Prize
The Telomere Clock 2nd Prize WB Yeats Poetry Prize
Fiddler Crabs Highly Commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize
The Fine Print is Very Commended WB Yeats Poetry Prize
The Moment of The Melody Winner Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
Sometimes We Fall Short 2nd Prize Positive Words Annual Poetry Prize
Hope Commended Tabor Adelaide Creative Writing Awards
The Folding Shortlisted Axel Clarke Poetry Prize
Fragile Grieve Poetry Competition
Thermodynamic Asymmetries Highly Commended Philip Bacon Ekphrasis
Predicting a Greensborough Woolworths Sit In Winner Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
Ouroboros Highly Commended FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
The Button Lesson 2nd Prize FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
Agnosiophobia Highly Commended Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
Type Specimen 2nd Prize Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
Poised Winner Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize

2014

A Better Fish Highly Commended Peter Cowan Writers Centre
MH370 Ghazal Commended FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize