Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 17, 1984
• Invested on: April 10, 1985

Her work, which is intensely Canadian and personal, has placed her in the forefront of Canadian writers and earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Governor General's Award for Literature. "The Dumbfounding", published in 1966, is considered classic, disciplined poetry of the "rarest and purest kind".