Winner of the 2005 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes). Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Poetry, Wisdom and Metaphor by Jan Zwicky was also shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Awards.
Shortlisted for the 2005 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, the 2005 Pat Lowther Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry. Longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards.