SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: January 2018

05 January 2018

ugrijan

od vrata pa nagore ...

siječanjsko sunce

warmed

from the neck and upwards . . .

January sun

Haiku časopis IRIS br. 11 / IRIS haiku magazine No. 11 – 2017

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, Blo͞o Outlier 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.