The 2018 NZPS anthology is not only out – it has sold out! But there may be a reprint of The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, read more here. So I can now share the haiku that was placed First and won the Jeanette Stace Memorial Award:
cloud lichen …
too late now
to learn the tango
Sandra Simpson
This was written well before I began a six-week course of ballroom dance lessons … turns out it might also be too late to learn how to foxtrot!
roadside blackberries –
the book I wore out reading
to my brother
Sandra Simpson, Commended
by the time he says kingfisher –
Sandra Simpson, Highly Commended
breath, a collection of haiku 