Grants, Awards, Nominations, Commendations
2024
Palestine Book Awards (Shortlisted) (Out of Gaza, co-ed.)
Nominated for PEN Heaney Prize (Wolves Come Grovelling)
2023-26
Royal Literary Fund Award
2023
Bread & Roses Poetry Award (Shortlisted)
2022
Bread & Roses Poetry Award (Shortlisted)
Shelley Memorial Poetry Prize 2022 (Highly Commended)
Morning Star Poetry Roundup Pick for 2021 (Anxious Corporals)
2021
Culture Matters Christmas Roundup Pick 2021 (Anxious Corporals)
2020-23
Royal Literary Fund Award
2020
Bread & Roses Poetry Award (Shortlisted)
2019
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
Bread & Roses Poetry Award (Shortlisted)
2017-20
Royal Literary Fund Award
2018
Bread & Roses Poetry Award (Joint Winner)
2017
Francis Head Bequest Award (Society of Authors)
InPress Staff Pick (Tan Raptures)
News From Nowhere Featured Book (Tan Raptures)
Forward Prize Nomination for Best Collection (Tan Raptures)
Authors' Contingency Fund Award (Society of Authors)
John Masefield Memorial Trust Award (Society of Authors)
2016
Francis Head Bequest Award (Society of Authors)
2014-17
Royal Literary Fund Award
2013
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award
(Odour of Devon Violet)
2012
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award
(Blaze a Vanishing/ The Tall Skies)
2011
Tillie Olsen Award Shortlist, Working-Class Studies Association, USA
(Keir Hardie Street)
Closest Runner Up for Morning Star's Well Versed Protest in Poetry Award
(The Robin Hood Book, ed.)
2010
The Poetry Kit Book of the Month (Emergency Verse, ed.)
Morning Star Poetry Pick 2010 (Keir Hardie Street)
2009
Purple Patch Best Small Press Poetry Collection Shortlist
(A Tapestry of Absent Sitters)
NHS Sussex Partnership Artist's Award (Mill View anthology)
2006
Forward Prize Nomination for Best First Collection
(The Mansion Gardens)
1998
Asham Literary Trust First Edition Prize