Simon Hanson is to be congratulated for having one of his poems short-listed in The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, as recently posted on The Haiku Foundation website, viewable at this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-2015-3/

desert stones
slowly their shadows
change sides

— Simon Hanson, Wild Plum — a haiku journal 1:2

Another leading Australian haiku poet – Ron C. Moss – was one of the panelists for these awards, after his book “The Bone Carver” had received a Touchstone Award last year (just as it received an Honourable Mention in the Mildred Kanterman Book Award, as a Merit Book Award for 2015 – for books published in 2014 – through the Haiku Society of America).