Honours

2000:	Carapace/SnailPress poetry prize.
2002:	Dalro Poetry Award.
2003:	Herman Charles Bosman Award for English Literature.
2007:	Mappe del Corpo nominated for the University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize.
2008:	Mappe del Corpo awarded Renzo Sertoli Prize for translator Paola Splendore.

Fellowships and Visiting Writer Positions

Sept/Oct 1999:	Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship, Study and Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy.
March 2001:	Visiting Writer at the College of Charleston’s Writers’ Series.
June/July 2003:	Civitella Ranieri Fellowship at Civitella, near Perugia, Italy.
March/April 2004:	Visiting Writer at Capilano College, Vancouver, Canada
Feb 2008:	Co-residency at Nirox Foundation Cradle of Humankind Artist’s residency programme.