SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: November 2016

27 November 2016

malene ruke
za crvenom loptom
u obzor

little hands
after the red ball
into the horizon

'Under the Basho' haiku journal 2016

8 November 2016

na obranom polju

strašilo maše zbogom
svojim bundevama

on a harvested field
a scarecrow waves farewell
to its pumpkins

3. Natječaj na temu 'buča' Ivanić-Grad, 2016. / The 3rd Haiku Contest on the theme 'Gourds', Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2016 - pohvala/honorable mention

2 November 2016

prva prehlada ...
skupe se u nosu
jesenji sokovi

first cold. . .
gathering in the nose
autumn juices

3. Susret hrvatskih haiđina, Ivanić-Grad, 2016. / 3rd Croatian Haiku Meeting, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2016 – pohvala/commended

BIOGRAPHY

DEJAN PAVLINOVIĆ, born in 1968, is an English and German teacher from Pula, Croatia. He has been writing haiku since 2007. His haiku poems have been published in Croatia and abroad, awarded and commended on Croatian and international haiku competitions (Kusamakura-Japan, ITOEN-Japan, Vladimir Devide Award-Japan, Mainichi-Japan, Vancouver Cherry Blossom, Yamadera-Japan, R.H. Blyth Award, Santoka Haiga Contest-Serbia, Ukiah-USA...). He is also published in various national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies (Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Blithe Spirit, Presence, IRIS haiku magazine, Chrysanthemum, Seashores, Senryu To, World Haiku Review, NHK Haiku Masters, A Hundred Gourds, Asahi Shimbun, UnderTheBasho, The Mamba, Failed Haiku, The Haiku Foundation, Ephemerae, Cattails, Wales Haiku Journal, Sketchbook...). Likewise, Dejan Pavlinović publishes his haiku both in Croatian and English on his SMILING CRICKET HAIKU BLOG.

'MLIJEČNOM STAZOM - DOWN THE MILKY WAY' is Pavlinović's first haiku collection and it contains 100 of his haiku poems from a period of 2007-2016, including those published, awarded and commended ones on various competitions. The book is entirely bilingual (Croatian and English) since he writes and publishes in both languages. The foreword was written by the eminent American author and theorist of haiku poetry and other short Japanese forms, Jane Reichhold. The afterword was written by Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, one of the leading poets and promoters of haiku poetry in Croatia and its wider region. Respectable and awarded authors George Swede and Chen-ou Liu contributed with their short blurbs. The book received excellent reviews, among others also in notable haiku magazines, such as BLITHE SPIRIT (the official journal of the British Haiku Society), FROGPOND (the official journal of the Haiku Society of America) and the Japanese haiku magazine SENRYU TO.