Książka została ręcznie wytłoczona.
Nagrody i wyróżnienia 1955: Poetry Awards Incorporated Prize (USA) 1972: Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship 1995: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2009: Montana Prize 2010: Sunday Times Short Story Award (UK) 2011: Prime Minister’s Award for fiction
New Zealand Book Awards 1972: Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards 1976: New Zealand Book Awards Poetry 1985: New Zealand Book Awards Fiction 1995: New Zealand Book Awards Fiction 2009: Montana New Zealand Book Awards Reference & Anthology
Twórczość Tomiki wierszy Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954–62 (1964) Crossing the Bar (1972) Quesada: Poems 1972–74 (1975) Walking Westward (1979) Geographies (1982) Poems of a Decade (1983) Paris: A poem (1984) Between (1988) Voices (1990) Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997) Dog (2002) King’s Lynn and the Pacific (2003) The Red Tram (2004) The Black River (2007)