Awards
2012 Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
2008 Arts Council Grant for the Arts
2008 Winner of the South Bank Show Decibel Prize!...more
2007 Costa Poetry prize nomination...more
2007 The South Bank Show Awards Decibel prize nomination...more
2007 Won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
2007 Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award...more
2007 Shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry
2007 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
2004 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Individual Poem
2003 First ever Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice
2003 Smith/Doorstop Books Pamphlet winner
2003 Pamphlet selected as one of the Guardian Poetry Books of the year