SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: 2023

22 December 2023

prelijeva se

u lopočevu sjenu

popodnevno sunce

afternoon sun

pouring into the shade

of a lotus pad

PREKO ZELENIH POLJA - Haiku putopis iz Vijetnama / ACROSS THE GREEN FIELDS - A haiku travelogue from Vietnam

(IRIS International 7, 2021)

08 December 2023

suton na Mekongu . . .

sampani isprate rijeku

ka moru

Mekong sunset . . .

sampans send the river off

towards the sea

PREKO ZELENIH POLJA - Haiku putopis iz Vijetnama / ACROSS THE GREEN FIELDS - A haiku travelogue from Vietnam

(IRIS International 7, 2021)

24 November 2023

svitanje

vrane polijeću

s golog drveta

sunrise

crows take flight

from a bare tree

30. Samoborski haiku susreti 2023. / 30th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2023

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

10 November 2023

korak po korak

blatnjavim čizmama

premještam brdo

step by step

I move the mountain

with my muddy boots

seashores international haiku journal

Volume 4, April 2022

03 November 2023

obnova suhozida

usklađene s fugama

naborane ruke

dry stone wall repair

aligned with the joints

these wrinkled hands

Gradska knjižnica "Juraj Šižgorić" Šibenik - haiku natječaj 2023. / Šibenik Public Library 2023 Haiku Competition

(pohvala / commended)

27 October 2023

lokva vode

jesenje lišće zaklanja

oblake

water puddle

autumn leaves obscure

the clouds

30. Samoborski haiku susreti 2023. / 30th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2023

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

20 October 2023

bačeni kruh

ulični golubovi stvaraju

geometrijske oblike

thrown bread

street pigeons crafting

geometric shapes

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2023. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2023

13 October 2023

morski horizont

šarenica njenog oka

se raspolovi

sea horizon

the iris of her eye

splits in two

The Asahi Shimbun, Japan - ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK, 06.10.2023.

29 September 2023

ratovi zvijezda

gađam Perzeide

svojim mlazom

star wars

shooting Perseids

with my pee

10. Susreti hrvatskih haiđina u Ivanić-Gradu 2023. / 10th Croatian Haiku Meeting in Ivanić-Grad 2023

(2. nagrada za senrju / 2nd prize for senryu)

22 September 2023

bdjenje

s bebom smirujemo

naše nesigurnosti

wake

lulling our insecurities

with the baby

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Times of Transition, September 2023

08 September 2023

grmljavina

pulsiranje zemlje

kroz naše usne

thunder

the pulse of the earth

through our lips

Haikuniverse, 29.08.2023.

25 August 2023

godišnjica smrti

u ladicama i ormarima

tražim odgovore

death anniversary

searching for answers

in drawers and cupboards

THF HAIKU DIALOGUE – Times of Transition (August 2023)

04 August 2023

putanja sunca

pjev cvrčaka

sve glasniji

sun path

the song of cicadas

growing louder

30. Samoborski haiku susreti 2023. / 30th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2023

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

07 July 2023

pučina

udaljena jedra pomiču

horizont

open sea

distant sails move

the horizon

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2023. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2023

23 June 2023

zavojiti put

pomisao na što je iza

gura me naprijed

winding road

the thought of what's behind

keeps me going

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2023. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2023

02 June 2023

Majčin dan

mladić joj šalje

emoji cvijeta

Mother’s Day

a young man sends her

a flower emoji

30. Samoborski haiku susreti 2023. / 30th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2023

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

19 May 2023

propuh

u krletci zarobljen

zamah krila

draught

trapped in a birdcage

a wing beat

HAIKU KLUB Gimnazija Pula – Haiku zbornik 2021. / Haiku miscellany 2021

05 May 2023

težina rata

savjest pognula glavu

bliže tlu

weight of war

conscience bows the head

closer to the ground

World Haiku Review - Proljeće 2023. / Spring 2023

Vanguard Haiku - pohvala / honourable mention

21 April 2023

istrošeni križ

ponovo slovkam

očevo ime

worn out cross

I spell my father's name

once more

PRESENCE haiku magazine #75 (Ožujak/March 2023), UK

14 April 2023

ispune prazninu

u pukotini na zidu

njihove sjene

filling the void

in a crack on the wall

their shadows

HAIKU KLUB Gimnazija Pula – Haiku zbornik 2021. / Haiku miscellany 2021

10 February 2023

svitanje

ona usnama miluje

prvo svjetlo

sunrise

she caresses the first light

with her lips

HAIKU KLUB Gimnazija Pula – Haiku zbornik 2020. / Haiku miscellany 2020

27 January 2023

zvijezda padalica

pomisao na oca

otupilo želju

shooting star

the thought of father

blunts my wish

HAIKU KLUB Gimnazija Pula – Haiku zbornik 2020. / Haiku miscellany 2020

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.