SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: 2020

18 December 2020

od novog zapuha

sakrila se pod kaput

mrzla bura

under the coat

hiding from the next gust

frosty wind

Časopis za haiku / Haiku Magazine IRIS International No. 6/1, 2020

04 December 2020

zastao svijet

samo vjetar

nosi zvukove

the world at halt

only the wind

moves the sounds

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2020

20 November 2020

kratki dani . . .

tišina u čekaonici

sve dulja

short days . . .

the silence in the waiting room

lengthens

The Asahi Shimbun, Japan - ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, 20 November 2020

30 October 2020

posljednji poljubac

čelo još uvijek

toplo

last kiss

the forehead

still warm

Frogpond (vol. 43.2, spring/summer 2020)

16 October 2020

pod stablom . . .

latice trešnje jednake

gore i dolje

under the tree . . .

cherry petals alike

up and down

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2020 - Honourable Mention

02 October 2020

na raskrižju

latice trešnje

u krivom smjeru

cherry petals

at a crossroad

the wrong way

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2020. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2020

18 September 2020

ispod majice

još uvijek svrbi

jučerašnje sunce

still itching

below the shirt

yesterday's sun

Časopis za haiku / Haiku Magazine IRIS International No. 6/1, 2020

04 September 2020

kolona mrava . . .

moj hod postaje

šašavi ples

trail of ants . . .

my walk becomes

a silly dance

THF Monthly Kukai, September 2020 - Third Prize

21 August 2020

lom valova . . .

sunce se ponovo

oblikuje

breaking waves . . .

the sun

reshaping itself

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2020

07 August 2020

noć Sv.Lovre

oči i zvijezde nasukane

u pinijama

Perseids

eyes and stars stranded

in the pine trees

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2020. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2020

24 July 2020

ljeskanje mora

sunce se razbija

u tisuće manjih

shimmering sea

the sun shatters

into thousands

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2020. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2020

10 July 2020

svjetionik

uronio za svjetlom

natrag u mrak

a lighthouse

dives after its light

back into the dark

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2020. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2020

08 May 2020

kasni mraz

ptići produžuju

krošnju

late frost

nestlings lengthen

the treetop

seashores international haiku journal
Volume 4, April 2020

24 April 2020

kiša

s galebovih krila

ispočetka

the rain

from a seagull’s wings

once more

cattails: The Official Journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society, April 2020 Issue

10 April 2020

spojeni

na kraju svojih svjetova

more i kopno

joined

at the end of their worlds

land and sea

“The Mamba” Journal of Africa Haiku Network, March 2020

27 March 2020

razigran

usred suhe trave

plamen vatre

playful

amidst dry grass

a flame

“The Mamba” Journal of Africa Haiku Network, March 2020

20 March 2020

procvjetalo drvo

progovorilo

jezikom pčela

a blossoming tree

speaking

in bee language

A LITTLE IRIS HAIKU CONTEST, CROATIA 2019 - Pohvala/Honorable Mention

Theme: Indigenous Languages

Judged by Jim Kacian

13 March 2020

vjetar

joj počešlja kosu

na drugu stranu

the wind

combs her hair

to the other side

Haiku Sanctuary February 2020 Kukai

Haiku Sanctuary

06 March 2020

iz ribarnice

lakša nego zadnji put

vrećica sa ribom

from the fish market

lighter than the last time

a bag of fish

Haiku časopis IRIS br. 13 / IRIS haiku magazine No. 13 – 2019

21 February 2020

kumulusi -

nebo oblikuje

osmijeh djevojčice

cumulus clouds -

the sky is shaping

a girl's smile

Haiku časopis IRIS br. 13 / IRIS haiku magazine No. 13 – 2019

07 February 2020

glasnije

od velikog slapa

kapi kiše

louder

than the big waterfall

raindrops

7. Susret haiku pjesnika, Brod Moravice 2019. / 7th Haiku Meeting in Brod Moravice 2019

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

31 January 2020

kroz jedno oko

palčićem i kažiprstićem

premošćuje rijeku

through one eye

with his thumb and index finger

bridging the river

'Haiku kraj mogile' haiku natječaj, Oroslavje 2019/'Haiku kraj mogile' haiku contest, Oroslavje, Croatia 2019

(3.nagrada/3rd prize)

3. Haiku kraj mogile 2019

17 January 2020

prazna klupa

puna čavrljanja

otpalog lišća

empty bench

full of chatter of

fallen leaves

7. Susret haiku pjesnika, Brod Moravice 2019. / 7th Haiku Meeting in Brod Moravice 2019

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

03 January 2020

očevim stopama

po istom kamenjaru

ista škripa

in father's footsteps

over the same rocky ground

the same crunch

EUROPEAN KUKAI 2019 (#2/22)

BIOGRAPHY

DEJAN PAVLINOVIĆ was born in 1968 in Pula, Croatia, but spent part of his childhood in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Today he is an English and German teacher, part-time tour guide and member of the indie band The Chweger from Pula. He serves on the Iris haiku magazine editorial staff, and he is the founding editor of the Haiku HR Facebook page. He runs the Pula Gymnasium Haiku Club in his school and conducts haiku workshops for students and adults. He judges haiku competitions for both children and adults. He has been writing haiku since 2007. His work is featured in two Croatian haiku anthologies. His poems have been published in Croatia and abroad, awarded and commended on Croatian and international haiku competitions (Kusamakura Haiku Competition, ITOEN, Vladimir Devide Award, The Betty Drevniok Award, Mainichi Haiku Contest, Vancouver Cherry Blossom, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest, R.H. Blyth Award, Santoka Haiga Contest, Ukiah Haiku Festival, Sōka Matsubara International Haiku Contest...). Likewise, his poems have been published in various national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies (Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Blithe Spirit, Presence, IRIS haiku magazine, The Haiku Foundation, Chrysanthemum, Seashores, Senryu To, World Haiku Review, NHK TV Haiku Masters, Poetry Pea Podcast, A Hundred Gourds, The Asahi Shimbun, Haikuniverse, Under the Basho, The Mamba Journal, Failed Haiku, Ephemerae, Cattails, Wales Haiku Journal, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, My Haiku Pond, World Haiku, Scarlet Dragonfly, Sketchbook...). Pavlinović’s haiku was featured on the Mann Library Daily Haiku page of Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) during the month of April 2023. He publishes his haiku both in English and Croatian on his Smiling Cricket Haiku blog. In 2016 he published his first book, ''MLIJEČNOM STAZOM - DOWN THE MILKY WAY'', a collection of haiku poetry written in both Croatian and English (foreword and afterword by Jane Reichhold and Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, and blurbs by George Swede and Chen-ou Liu). In 2021 he published ''NEXUS HAIKU'', a co-authored and co-created bilingual collection of haiku, senryu, haiku sequences and rengay, where all poems were composed equally and collaboratively during a period of three years by Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. Pavlinović publishes his second solo book ''LINIJE ŽIVOTA / LIFE LINES / 生命線'' in 2024, a collection of haiku poetry written in Croatian, English and Japanese (foreword by Nina Kovačić, and blurbs by Michael Dudley and Ikuyo Yoshimura).

''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.

''NEXUS HAIKU'' is a co-authored and co-created bilingual (English and Croatian) collection of haiku, senryu, haiku sequences and rengay. All poems were composed equally and collaboratively during a period of three years by Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. Working co-operatively together on the poems created an ebb-and-flow process that allowed continual opportunities for organic expressions of complementary energies; complexities of ideas; shifts of perspectives; and juxtapositions of personal and cultural experiences, perceptions, and memories. The 120 pages of the book have been enriched with Sanela Pliško's foreword and Nina Šestanović's illustrations, as well as blurbs written by Gilles Fabre and Đurđa Vukelić Rožić. The authors of NEXUS haiku are established haiku poets whose haiku poems have been awarded and commended in many Canadian, Croatian and international competitions, and have been published in numerous national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies. NEXUS haiku is the winner of the 2021 Borivoj Bukva Award for best haiku collection published in Croatia, presented by the Croatian Literary Society.

''LINIJE ŽIVOTA / LIFE LINES / 生命線'' is Pavlinović's third (second solo) collection of haiku poetry comprising 100 haiku poems, including those published, awarded, and commended in various domestic and international competitions. The book has 156 pages, and is trilingual (Croatian, English, and Japanese), with the English translations of the poems done by the author himself, as he writes and publishes in both Croatian and English, while the Japanese translations are the work of Japanese poet Ikuyo Yoshimura. The foreword was written by the distinguished Croatian haiku poet Nina Kovačić, and the book features short reviews by renowned Canadian poet Michael Dudley and translator and poet Ikuyo Yoshimura. Additional contributors include Sanela Pliško (co-editor), Matko Plovanić (cover, layout, and design), and Thierry Dubois (illustrations). The book is published by TONDAK in 2024.