SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: September 2017

29 September 2017

pod dugom
curi niz kišobrane
travanjsko sunce

under the rainbow
dripping down umbrellas
April sun

23.Samoborski haiku susreti/23rd Samobor Haiku Meeting (iz zbornika/from the miscellany) 2015

22 September 2017

kašnjenje leta ...

iza prozorskog stakla

isti oblaci

airport delay. . .

behind the glass window

the same clouds

The Shiki Monthly Kukai - Travanj/April 2014

15 September 2017

povjetarac

zanjiše latice trešnje

natrag ka grani

gentle breeze

sways the cherry petals

back to their branch

9th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2017 - Selected Haiku/Odabrani haiku

9th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest - pdf

8 September 2017

obasjan
pred neveru
pjev slavuja

illuminated

before the storm

a nightingale's song

9th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2017 - Selected Haiku/Odabrani haiku

9th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest - pdf

1 September 2017

oblak u sobu
kroz otvoren prozor ...
jutarnja magla

cloud into a room
through an open window. . .
morning fog

6.Kloštranski haiku susreti, Kloštar Ivanić /6.Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest (iz zbornika/from the miscellany) 2008

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, 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, 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.