SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: August 2019

23 August 2019

zamahom krila

leptir otjera miris

sa lavande

with a flap

a butterfly drives away the scent

from lavender

27.Samoborski haiku susreti/27th Samobor Haiku Meeting (iz zbornika/from the miscellany) 2019

16 August 2019

pod borovima

cvrčci režu tišinu

ljetnog popodneva

under the pines

cicadas cut the silence

of a summer afternoon

27.Samoborski haiku susreti/27th Samobor Haiku Meeting (iz zbornika/from the miscellany) 2019

2 August 2019

visoke krošnje

nad bambusovom šumom

ponijele nebo

tree tops

above a bamboo forest

carry the sky

Iz ''Osmijesi pod trešnjama'' (Haiku putopis iz Japana) / From ''Smiles Under The Cherries'' (A haiku travelogue from Japan)

Časopis za haiku / Haiku Magazine IRIS International No. 4 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, 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.