2007 Veliki skolski čas prize Prize, Serbia, for The Blue Butterfly, Salt
Publishing, Cambridge, 2006
2005 Morava International Poetry Prize, Serbia, for U vreme suše
(Serbian version of In a Time of Drought, tr. Vera V. Radojević)
2003 Shearsman book of the month, July, for Book With no Back Cover
1992 H. H. Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Award for Poetry for The Blue Butterfly,
an early unpublished draft
1992 CELJ (Council of Learned Journals of America), runner-up for
'Best Special Issue 1994', for Out of Yugoslavia, North Dakota
Quarterly, co-editor
1990 Yeats Club, first prize, translation
1989 Yeats Club, runner-up, poem & translation
1982 Arvon Poetry Competition, Duncan Lawrie Award, for
'Black is the light (1)
1979-81 Arts Council of Great Britain, Writer’s Fellowship, Victoria Centre
for Adult Education, Gravesend
1974 Keats Memorial Prize for Poetry, first prize, for 'The Rose of Sharon'
1973 Arts Council of Great Britain, writer’s grant
1972 Eric Gregory Award for Poetry
1972 Keats Memorial Prize for Poetry, finalist
1969 Arts Council of Great Britain, translator’s grant
1961 Transatlantic Review, prize, national short story competition