June 2, 2008

The Australian Haiku Society (HaikuOz) warmly congratulates Catherine Mair of Katikati, New Zealand.

The NZ Queen's Birthday Honours list (which precedes the Australian list by a week) includes a Queen's Service Medal (QSM) for Catherine "for services to poetry and the community".

To find out more, visit Haiku News edited by Sandra Simpson on the New Zealand Poetry Society web-site
www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews June 2008.

This is a landmark for haiku in English in the southern hemisphere.

Beverley George
President
Australian Haiku Society