Doghouse Haiku Anthology on Shortlist

Well done to Doghouse Books and to Anatoly Kudryavitsky on being shortlisted for this haiku book award. Bamboo Dreams is the first Irish anthology of haiku.

This is the shortlist for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards 2012

 Addiss, Stephen, The Art of Haiku, Shambhala
 Boldman, Robert, Everything I Touch, Red Moon Press
 Virgilio, Nick (ed. de Gruttola), Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku, Turtle Light Press
 Gurga, Lee and Metz, Scott, Haiku 21, Modern Haiku Press
 Hall, Carolyn, The Doors All Unlocked, Red Moon Press
 Hotham, Gary, Nothing More Happens in the 20th Century, Pecan Grove Press
 Jones, Ken, Bog Cotton, Alba Publishing
 Kudryavitsky, Anatoly, Bamboo Dreams, Doghouse Books
 Lanoue, David, Frog Poet, Red Moon Press
 Machmiller, Patricia J., Bending Reeds [Yuki Teikei Members’ Anthology], Patsons Press
 Martone, John, A Life in Fall, Samuddo/Ocean
 Martone, John, Microscope Field, Samuddo/Ocean
 Martone, John, Skeleton Key, Samuddo/Ocean
 Metz, Scott, Lakes & Now Wolves, Modern Haiku Press
 Tohta, Kaneko, Selected Haiku: Parts 1 & 2, Red Moon Press