Awards

                                                                                                                       2021

• New England Highway, Late - Winner - Ipswich Poetry Festival, Open Category
• Failures - Winner - KSP Centre’s Poetry Award
• The Women - Longlisted - Lane Cove Literary Awards
• The Dawn - Highly Commended - ACU Poetry Prize
• How to Hold a Knife - Winner - Booranga Prize for Poetry
• Bitter - Shortlisted - Wigtown Poetry Prize
• She Starts Playing After Ten Years of Silence - Highly Commended - Poetry D Amour Competition 2021
• What We Learned from the Geisha Girl - David Lloyd Funerals Award - Grieve Writing Competition
• Aum Shinrikyo Farms Sarin - Winner - Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition
• A Smallholding - 2nd Prize - Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition
• Callus - Winner - Café Writers Open Poetry Competition
• An Inscription on a Grave - Winner - Magma Judge’s Prize
• The Devil’s Wife - Shortlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
• Ode to My Envy - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
• The Longest Wave - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
• The Beasts - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize

                                                                                                                      2020                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

• The Way - Highly Commended - Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize
• Carpool - Longlisted - Peter Porter Poetry Prize
• A Grandfather’s Story - Highly Commended - Ipswich International Poetry Competition Reg Grundy and Joy Chambers
• The Resurrection Machine - Highly Commended - Woorilla Poetry Prize
• Measures of Truth - Winner - Newcastle Poetry Prize
• Love and Other Junk - Highly Commended - 2020 Poetry d’Amour Competition
• All the Colours of the Sky - Finalist - Atlanta Review 2020 International Poetry Competition
• ​Bookend to a Flood - Shortlisted - Montreal International Poetry Prize
• Chained Sonnet - Shortlisted - Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
• Atlas Carried the World - 3rd Prize - ACU Poetry Prize (Theme of ‘Generosity’)
• A Thousand Hammers from a Thousand Smiths - Commended - Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
• Chaff - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
• How to Win an Argument - Highly Commended - Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
• The Nave (Unpublished Manuscript) - Shortlisted - Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript

• The Handshake - Winner - Newcastle University Poetry Competition

• The Nave -  Winner - Moth Poetry Prize
• Alien - Shortlisted - Malahat Review Open Season Award
• The Great Mystery  - Commended - The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize

                                                                                                                                            2019

• ​My Father’s Suit  -  Highly Commended  -  Katherine Susannah Pritchard Poetry Prize
• Grey’s Anatomy  -  3rd Prize  -  Ipswich Poetry Feast Open Category
• Twined  -  Longlisted  -  Bridport Poetry Prize
• Nothing  -  Shortlisted  -  Newcastle Poetry Prize
• The Careless Shore  -   Longlisted  -  Canberra University Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
• Egg  -  Finalist   -  The New Guard/Knightville Poetry Prize
• The Eighth Strike  -  1st Prize   -  Woorilla Poetry Prize
• Ice and Glass  -  1st Prize  -  Val Vallis Poetry Prize
• Bezoar  -  2nd Prize   -  Val Vallis Poetry Prize
• 12 Ways to Look at a Landscape  -  Joint 1st Prize   -  Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize
• Curtain Call   -  Highly Commended   -  Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize​
• The Line Marker’s Testimony   -  Highly Commended   -  Bruce Dawe Poetry National Poetry Prize
• The Map-Maker’s Tale   -  1st Prize   -   Welsh International Poetry Prize
• Changing the Sheets  -  1st Prize  -  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• The Last Shave   -  Equal 2nd Prize  -  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• Mangrove Canal Road   -  Highly Commended   -  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• An Immolation  -   Shortlisted   -   Plough Poetry Prize 2018
• Narrow Band  -  Shortlisted  -  Plough Poetry Prize 2018
• The People from the Future   -    Longlisted    -   Plough Poetry Prize 2018
• Saturn Devouring His Son   -   Commended    -   Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize
• 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   -   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  -  Longlisted   -  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