Awards and honours
Awards
| 2022 | Plutarch Prize (Biographers’ International Organisation) 2022 (finalist) PEN (US) Jacqueline Bograd Weld International Award for Biography 2022 (finalist) |
| 2021 | Wales Poetry Book of the Year |
| 2020 | European Lyric Atlas Prize for Poetry |
| 2019 | Naim Frasheri International Laureate Society of Authors Work in Progress Award for Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best Biography Prize (finalist) |
| 2017 | MBE for services to literature Fellow of Wordsworth Trust |
| 2016 | Slovo Podgrmec Prize (Bosnia) Aark Arts International Poetry Prize (India) |
| 2015 | Povelji za međunarodnu saradnju (Bosnia) |
| 2013 | Poetry Book Society Recommendation Fellow of Royal Society of Arts |
| 2012 | Arts Council of England Grant for the Arts |
| 2011 | Poetry Book Society Online Choice |
| 2010 | T.S. Eliot Prize (finalist) Forward Prize for best book (finalist) |
| 2009 | Cholmondeley Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Fellow of the English Association |
| 2007 | T.S. Eliot Prize (finalist) |
| 2006 | Forward Prize for best single poem (finalist) Charles Angoff Award, The Literary Review (US) |
| 2003 | Zlaten Prsten Prize (Macedonia) Evelyn Encelot Prize for European Women Poets Maison d Écrivains Paris (finalist) |
| 2002 | Kathleen Blundell Trust (Society of Authors) |
| 2000, 2002, 2004 | Travel grants from Arts Council of England |
| 1999, 1993 | Arts Council of Wales Writer’s Award |
| 1998, 1996 | Society of Authors Award |
| 1992 | Newdigate Prize, University of Oxford |
Fellowships
- Fellow of the Wordsworth Trust (awarded) 2018-
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected) 2012-
- Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (elected) 2013-2017
- Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (awarded) 2016-
- Fellow of the English Association (elected) 2011-
- Associate, Welsh Academy (elected)
- Founder member, LAPIDUS (elected)
Research/Fellowships
- Digital Fellowship, Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University, Texas, US: Sept 2021
- Visiting Professor, University of Bergamo, Italy: May 2020 (Covid postponed)
- CI on AHRC research grant ‘Poetry translation in poet-advisor-poet trios: collaborative, cross-language and creative processes’ 2016-18 £375k
- Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London:
- Institute of Modern Language Research: 2018-9,
- Institute of Musical Research & Institute of English Studies: 2012-15
- CAPITAL Fellowship in Creativity at the University of Warwick 2007-8
- AHRC Fellowship at Poetry Centre, Oxford Brookes University 2002-5
Writer’s Fellowships
- Heinrich Böll House, Achill Island, 2024
- Britten-Pears Foundation creative residency, 2021
- Prague UNESCO City of Literature international residency, 2019
- 1863 Residencia Literaria, A Coruna, 2019
- Baltic Writers and Translators House, Visby, Gotland, 2018
- Trsic Writers House, Serbia, 2018
- I.A. Literary Association, Skojcan, Slovenia, 2015
- Greek Writers’ Union Writers’ and Translators’ House, Paros, 2011
- Estonian Writers’ Union House, Kasmu, 2009
- Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, 2002
- Hawthornden Fellowship, 2001
- Fondacion da Casa de Mateus, Portugal, 2001