SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: March 2018

10 March 2018

u potoku

samo trešnjin cvat

miruje

in a stream

only the cherry blossoms

at rest

BLITHE SPIRIT (Journal of The British Haiku Society) - Volume 28, Number 1

Ožujak/March 2018

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, Ukiah-USA etc.). He is also published in various national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies (Frogpond, Blythe Spirit, Chrysanthemum, Senryu To, World Haiku Review, NHK Haiku Masters, A Hundred Gourds, Asahi Shimbun, UnderTheBasho, Failed Haiku, Sketchbook...). Dejan Pavlinović occasionally 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 great Jane Reichhold, one of the greatest American authors and theorists of haiku poetry and other short Japanese forms. The afterword was written by Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, today 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 very good and positive reviews, among others also in notable haiku magazines, such as BLYTHE 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.