In 2011, he won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for the collection On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010).
[6] The coda to the volume suggests that the anti-globalization movement sought a return to the commons motivated by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation's communiqués from the Lacandon Jungle.
[7] His work since 2008 has turned towards environmental politics and practices of commoning among indigenous peoples.
[10] Collis' poem "Golfing St. George's Hill with Sean Bonney" (2016) describes a visit with the poet Sean Bonney to the golf course at St George's Hill, which was the site of an occupation by the Diggers in 1649 and today is part of a gated community, and draws on the proclamation made there by Gerrard Winstanley.
[11] Daniel Eltringham has argued that Collis' work, as well as that of Bonney and others, is part of a broader turn in 21st-century poetry to themes of commons and enclosure.