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Touchstone Distinguished Book Award to Ron C. Moss

Further congratulations go to leading Australian haiku poet, Ron C. Moss.

Having recently won the Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Award for 2014, Ron has just become one of three recipients of a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award for 2014, for “The Bone Carver” (published by Snapshot Press) – his new haiku collection that features a wide range of prize-winning poems.

Ron C. Moss also had a haiku shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems.

Details regarding this set of awards can be viewed at this link: http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-2014

Another Australian haiku poet - Jan Dobb - likewise received recognition in this same set of awards.

First published in New Zealand in "Kokako 21", the following haiku by Jan was short-listed in the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems:

suburban street . . .
side by side in a bookcase
the tight-shut tales

First published in "The Heron's Nest" XVII.4, Ron C. Moss had the following individual haiku short-listed in the Touchstone Awards:

old horses
days of endless rain
in their eyes

"HaikuOz" readers are reminded that copies of Ron C. Moss' award-winning book “The Bone Carver” can be ordered through emailing him at the following address: [email protected]