Dibble was awarded the
Robert Burns Fellowship from the
University of Otago in 1969.
Ralph Hotere, who was the
Frances Hodgkins Fellow at Otago also in 1969, incorporated some of Dibble's poems into his artwork. Dibble wrote plays for television, theatre and radio, including
Killing of Kane, based on the deeds of
Tītokowaru in Taranaki in the 1860s, the one-off tele-drama
Double Exposure,
Lord, Dismiss Us… and
Lines to M. Dibble moved to
Sydney in the 1970s and died there in 2014. ==References==