He was the winner of the "2017 University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize". He won the "25th Launceston Poetry Cup" in Tasmania in 2010. He has set poems to music by Sappho, Sylvia Plath, Les Murray, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Andrew Lansdown and C.P. Cavafy. He wrote "Hill of Death" from a poem of Louisa Lawson's that won Best Folk Gospel Song at the Australian Gospel Awards. "Cocaine Lil", an eighteenth-century public domain lyric, formed the basis for an up-tempo blues song – both of these poems-set-to-music appeared on his 2007 album "The Wind Cries Mary". "Cocaine Lil" was also included as a featured track in "Australian Guitar Player Magazine".