And dug my fingers in the sand

The collection contains 51 poems.

• 1998 – The Denis Butler Memorial Award, for the poem The Distance and the Heat.^[3]
• 1999 – The Australian Sports Poetry Award, for the poem Physical.^[4]
• 1999 – $15,000 Newcastle Poetry Prize, for the poem Approaching the Edge.^[5]
• 2000 – Second Prize, Fellowship of Australian Writers' Anne Elder Poetry Award (for a first book of poetry) for his collection and dug my fingers in the sand.^[6]
• 2001 – $15,000 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for the collection and dug my fingers in the sand.^[7]

Also, another four of the collection's items had been recognized:

• "Postcards" — runner up, 1999 Banjo Paterson Writing Award.^[8]
• "lithosphere" — commended, 1999 Robert Harris Ulitarra Poetry Prize.^[8]
• "any and all means" — commended, 1998 Tom Collins Poetry Prize.^[8]
• "Imagined Seas" — short-listed, 1998 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize.^[8]

The collection has been reviewed.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

• 2000 in Australian literature
• 2000 in poetry