Her adult poetry collections are "Standing Female Nude" (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; "Selling Manhattan" (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; "The Other Country" (1990); "Mean Time" (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); "The World's Wife" (1999); "Feminine Gospels" (2002); and "Rapture" (2005), winner of the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize.