Within 1977 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998.

Works
A Sun & a Moon – 1944 A Metal & a Flower – 1954 Cry Ararat – 1967 A Sun & a Moon & More Fictions – 1973 Verse form Selceted & Fresh – 1984 Evening Dance of the Grey Flies – 1981 A Glass Air – 1985 Brazilian Journal – 1987 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) The Flask of Sea A stream – 1989 A Travel Musicians – 1991 A Goat that Flew – 1993 Holograph: The Book of Glosas – 1994 & Over again Saw a Stars – 2001 The Sort of Fiction – 2001 Planet Globe – 2002 (shortlisted for the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)