• Winner,
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 1989 (
Journey to Yalta) • Winner,
Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History, 2013
(The Wittenbergs) • Winner,
High Plains Book Award, 2008 (
A Feast of Longing) • Winner, Poetry, Word Guild, 2013 (
Monstrance) • Short-listed, Margaret Laurence Award, 2001 (
The Peony Season), 2008 (
A Feast of Longing), 2014 (
The Wittenbergs), 2023 (
The Russian Daughter) • Winner,
Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize, 2007 (
A Curious Beatitude) • Gold, The National Magazine Award for Poetry, 1991 • Silver, The National Magazine Award for Poetry, 2017 • Shortlisted,
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (
Violence and Mercy, Dangerous Elements, Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love, and
Monstrance) • Nominated,
Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry ==References==