Nikola Đuretić

Nikola Đuretić was born in Osijek Croatia in 1949. He worked in publishing and for more than twenty years in London as a Senior Producer with the BBC. Thus far he published more than thirty books of prose, poetry, essays and feuilleton, of which twelve are collections of haiku. For his literary work he received numerous awards of which several for haiku Honourable mention at 16th and 24th HIA Haiku Contest, Runner up at International Haiku Contest “Vladimir Devide”, Honourable Mention at 2nd Morioka International Haiku Contest, Merit Award ITO EN Oi Ocha twice, International Sakura Award, etc.. For his contribution to Croatian culture he was awarded the highest state order for culture in 1998. A member of the Croatian Writers’ Association, he lives in Zagreb Croatia.

Goran Gatalica

Goran Gatalica was born in Virovitica, Croatia, in 1982 and currently resides in Zagreb, Croatia.
He finished both physics and chemistry degrees from the University of Zagreb and proceeded directly to a PhD program after graduation. He has published poetry, haiku, and prose in the literary journals and anthologies.

Tomislav Maretić

Tomislav Maretić (1951) is a MD (a specialist for infectious diseaseses) from Zagreb city, Croatia. He has been writing haiku for almost forty years and his haiku have received several awards and prizes. He lives in Gornje Vrapče, a picturesque village near the Croatian capital city with his wife and four children.

Duško Matas (1933 - 2021)

Duško Matas was a forensic psychiatrist. Most of his lifetime he lived and created in Zagreb, Croatia. His haiku were published in a number of magazines, miscellanies and post-contest anthologies in Croatian, Slovenian, Japanese, French, German, Romanian, Italian and English since 1988. He took part at most gatherings and recitals of the Croatian haiku poets and the contests for haiku in Croatia and abroad. He was selected on to the judging committee for haiku a number of times, evaluating haiku and senryu in the Chakavian dialect and Croatian. His haiku were presented in several anthologies and he received a number of awards in Croatia and abroad. He was a publisher of several haiku books as well. 

Awards and Other Honours:

Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (1998); Award, Yellow Moon Literary Competition (2000); Second Prize, Ito-En, International Haiku Contest (2000); Commended haiku, UNESCO Paris (2000); Third Prize, Haiku Calendar/Rokovnik, International Haiku Contest in English, Ludbreg (2006); Second Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, English language Category (2006); Second Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2004); Honourable Mention, Haiku Calendar/Rokovnik, Ludbreg (2003); Honorary Mention, The 36th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku Meeting Competition (Kyoto, 1999); The Ludbreg Column of Haiku Poets, a travelling recognition which has been awarded yearly at Ludbreg Haiku Meetings to Croatian Haijin since 2003. Two haiku were selected for inclusion in William J. Higginson's Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac(Kodansha International, 1996); Honourable Mention, World Haiku Festival 2010 in Nagasaki, Competition on the theme of the Atomic Bomb (2010); Honourable Mention, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (2010); work included on the Haiku Society of America's "Haiku Wall" at the Liberty Theatre Gallery in Bend, Oregon (June 3-5, 2011): Honorable Mention, The 18^th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2014.

 Books published - Japanese short poems:
Vodene trave(Water grasses), Zagreb 1991
Vrh planine / Mountain Top, Zagreb 1998
Ljubavna priča / Love Story, Zagreb 1999

Collaborated haiku collections:
Sedam putova / Seven Ways, Zagreb 2000
Sedam novih putova / Seven New Ways, Zagreb 2003

Collaborated haiga collection
Olovka i kist / Svinčnik in čopić/ Pencil and Paintbrush

Haiku by seven authors illustrated by Rudi Stopar, Sevnica, Slovenia 2010

Selected haiku:

lane along the stream
following it down
and up

staza uz potok
slijed ga nizvodno
i uzvodno

(Second Prize, International “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition, Japan 1998)

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the weeds grow
on the demined land –
“A mine field”

raste korov –
na izrovanoj zemlji
piše “minsko polje”

(Honorable Mention, The 36^th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku Meeting Competition, Kyoto, Japan 1999)

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low flight of a bird
a swollen stream carrying
an empty nest

niski let ptice
nabujali potok nosi
prazno gnijezdo

(Second Prize, Ito-En International Haiku Contest, Japan 2000)

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flamingo standing
in the low tide, a movement
a fish in the beak

u oseki mora
stoji flamingo, kretnja
u kljunu riba

(Award, Yellow MoonLiterary Competition, Australia, 2000; Antologija Haiku Europejskiego Gwiazda za Gwiazda, Krakow, Poland, 2005)

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the sunset
thins out
the cicadas’ song

zalazak sunca
istanjuje
pjesmu cikada

(Greieri şi crizanteme, Haiku Antologie Internaţională, Editura Orion, Bucureşti 2007 Editor: Valentin Nicoliţov)

Zdenko Oreč-Gavran

(1930 ̶ 2021)

Zdenko Oreč-Gavran was born on 20 April 1930 in the town of Zvečevo, Croatia. He founded the Ludbreg Haiku Meetings (Ludbreški haiku susreti) in the town of Ludbreg, northeast of Zagreb. This gathering of haiku poets has been held every year since 1997 and is open to the public. The first Haiku zbornik - Ludbreg was published in 1998 and included materials from the 1997 gathering. Until 2003 miscellanies were published privately by Oreč-Gavran. The Miscellany was a major publication where poets were invited to contribute haiku to the annual publication, and the selected work was published in the Haiku Miscellany.

Oreč-Gavran was also co-editor of the annual Haiku Calendar/Rokovnik and edited and published annual miscellanies of children's haiku. He was a member of the judging commissions for haiku and senryu. In 2006 he was awarded the annual Ludbreg column of haiku poets, transitional chalice for haiku poets. Besides haiku he was publishing prose, poetry and riddles in a number of journals and newspapers. He issued two collections of aphorisms and a book of puns from children's textbooks. He wrote haiku and senryu in Croatian and the Kajkavian Dialect. Zdenko Oreč died in Ludbreg in 2021.

Awards and Other Honours:

• Zbornik Haiku Konkurs 'AN4-2001'/Anthology Haiku competition 'AN4-2001';
• Encouragement Award, Ito-En, International Haiku Contest (1997);
• Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (1998);
• Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (1999);
• Marijan Čekolj i Marinko Španović: Otvoren put /Free Road: Antologija hrvatske haiku poezije [Croatian Haiku anthology] (Hrvatsko haiku društvo: Samobor, 1999);
• 100 Croatian Haiku [An anthology for the Haiku Cards Game] (DHHP, Zagreb 2000);
• Very good haiku, A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku Meeting (2001);
• Third Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2003);
• Second Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2004);
• Annual Ludbreg column of haiku poets award, Croatia, 2006;
• Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Japan 2008;
• Commendation, Pumpkin Festival Haiku Contest (Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2015).

Haiku/Haiga Books Published:

• Rijeke šume (Rustling Rivers), Ludbreg, 1996;
• Školjka u pijesku (A Shell in the Sand), Ludbreg, 1998;
• Plodovi nesanice: 1991 (Fruits of Insomnia: 1991). Ludbreg, Croatia: published privately, 1999;
• Neprolazni susreti (Unpassable Encounters), Ludbreg, 1999;
• Olovka i kist (Pencil and Paintbrush), haigas painted by Rudi Stopar (Slovenia); haiku by Zdravko Kurnik, Zvonko Petrovic, Julija Ivic, Dusko Matas, Boris Nazansky, Zdenko Oreč, and Rudi Stopar; in Croatian, Slovenian, English and Japanese, Zagreb, 2010.

Selected works:

ona mu okrene leđa
na mjesečini
obrisi brda u porastu

she turns her back
in the moonlight
the mountain contour expands

(Encouragement Award, Ito-En, International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 1997)

ljetni pljusak
pod stablo padaju cvjetovi
na suho

summer downpour
under the tree-crown the blossoms
falling into dry

(Second Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Japan, 2008)

dostavno vozilo
radi u snijegu ̶
miris kruha

a delivery van
working in the snow ̶
the smell of bread

(Second Prize, the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Japan, 1999)

TV-sapunicama
ispiru sjećanja
na prljavi rat

with TV serials
they are rinsing our memories
of the dirty war

(Awarded (very good haiku) at the 35th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, 2001)

sjemenke suncokreta
padaju
u svoju sjenu

sunflower seeds
falling into
their own shadows

(Otvoren put/Free Road, An Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry, Croatian Haiku Society, Samobor, 1999. (Edited by Marijan Čekolj and Marinko Španović)

zvonki udarac
grane o krov auta
ispraznio kafić

resonant sound ̶
a bough on the car roof
emptied the pub

(Haiku No. 21/22, The Assocication of Croatian Haiku Poets, Zagreb, 2004 (Edited by. D. V. Rožić)

priđoh prozoru
da pobrojim ptice
one odlijeću

I come to the window
to count the birds
they fly away

(Ludbreški haiku zbornik/Ludbreg Haiku Miscellany, Croatia, 2015)

ona miluje
svoj mobitel a dečki
čekaju rundu

she is cuddling
her mobile phone ̶ the boys
ordered another round

(Third Prize, „Afrodita“ erotic haiku/senryu contest, Ludbreg, Croatia, 2015 (Founded by Mirko Varga)

crna trepavica
na praznom papiru ̶
otvorena zagrada

a black eyelash
on a blank paper ̶
an open bracket

(IRIS No. 15, 2021, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia), Haiku translated by D. V. Rožić

Sources:

https://www.magicus.info/alternativci-i-korisnici/preporuci-knjigu-tehniku-alternativca/zdenko-orec
https://czkidn.hr/results-of-a-raven-haiku-contest-rezultati-haiku-natjecaja-na-temu-gavran/
http://dominikanac.blogspot.com/2020/11/u-spomen-36-zdenko-orec.html
https://haikupedia.org/article-haikupedia/haiku-in-croatia/
https://thehaikufoundation.org/poet-details/?IDclient=152

IRIS International, Year 7^th, No.7, 2021, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia

This profile was created in collaboration with Djurdja Vukelić-Rožić and Stjepan Rožić, who took the photograph. We appreciate their invaluable help in preparing Zdenko Oreč’s biography.

Dejan Pavlinović

Born 1968 in Pula, Croatia
Living in Pula, Croatia

Vida Pust Škrgulja

(1952 - 2021)

Vida Pust Škrgulja was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1952. She graduated in Latin and History of Art from the Department of Philosophy at University of Zagreb, and spent her working years as a teacher of Latin and Arts in high schools in the towns of Ivanić-Grad and Križ, Croatia. Beside her teaching career and family, being a mother of four daughters, she spent her time on a number of activities, promoting arts and culture. By founding the association Amici hereditatis (Prijatelji baštine; Friends of heritage) in Ivanić-Grad, she started the process of founding the first museum in this town and was its first director. Through the decades she set up a number of exhibitions for local artists.

Škrgulja started writing haiku in the 1970s and was among the first haijin in Ivanić-Grad.

In 2003 together with Djurdja Vukelić Rožić and Stepan Rožić they inaugurated the Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Meetings (Kloštar Ivanić haiku susreti) and later in 2006 also founded the Haiku Association “Three Rivers” in Ivanić-Grad. Vida Pust Škrgulja was on the editorial board of the magazine IRIS and a judge for haiku and haiga contests. She wrote haiku in Croatian, Slovenian, Latin and English, and her work was featured in numerous miscellanies, anthologies and journals in Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom, USA and Japan. She has won several national and international awards as well. Vida Pust Škrgulja was bestowed Lifetime Achievement Award by the town of Ivanić-Grad in 2007. She died in Ivanić-Grad, Croatia in 2021.

Book published:

Sedam prozora / Seven Windows by Vida Pust-Škrgulja, Ljerka Poštek-Jelača, Djurdja-Vukelić Rožić, Marica Behtan-Cecelja, Franko Bušić, Stjepan Rožić and Robert Stipić. Ed. by Djurdja Vukelić Rožić, Kloštar Ivanić, Croatia: Agapa, 2002.

Some awards and honours:

• Encouragement Award, Ito-En, International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 1997;
• Third Prize, The International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Japan, 2000;
• Award (third choice), WHC R. H. Blyth Award, 2002;
• Lifetime Achievement Award by the town of Ivanić-Grad, 2007.

Selected works:

snježno jutro
u košari na polici
proklijao češnjak

snowy morning
in the basket on the shell
the garlic has sprouted

(Encouragement Award, Ito-En, International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 1997)

lastavice lete
nad ljetnom kućicom
uhvaćenom u čaši vina

swallows fly
above the summer house
caught in a glass of wine

(Third Prize, The International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, Japan, 2000)

obasjano suncem
na plavome dnu ̶ stablo
uz jato riba

lighted by the sun
on the blue bottom ̶ a tree trunk
among fish

(Letni časi haiku magazine No. 16, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002)

jutarnji vlak
snježnim se ljestvama penje
sve brže i brže

morning train
climbing the snowy ladder
faster and faster

(Award (third choice), WHC R. H. Blyth Award, 2002)

dječji se smijeh
uvukao
u gitaru na zidu

the children's laugh
crept into
the guitar on the wall

(Sedam prozora/Seven Windows, joint haiku collection, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2002)

na dnu škrinje
svežanj pisama i
svilena vrpca

at the bottom of the chest
a bundle of letters and
a silk ribbon

(Blithe Spirit Vol 14 No 3, September 2004)

na dnu srebrne čaše
u staretinarnici
tragovi crnog vina

at the bottom of a silver cup
in an antique shop
stains of red wine

(World Haiku 2006 No 2, WHA Japan)

noć bez zvijezda
u jednom prozoru
treperi svjetlo

starless night
in one of the windows
flickering candle-light

(Shamrock, Issue 6, Focus on Croatia, 2009)

umor večeri
rasplinu se pogledom...
zvjezdano nebo

evening fatigue
scattered in the gaze...
a starry sky

(To the memory of Vladimir Devidé, the Kloštar Ivanić Joint Haiku Collection, Croatia, 2011)

stara singerica
u ladici unuk sakrio
svoje blago

in the drawer of
an old sewing machine
my grandson's treasure

(Igračke/Toys, post contest anthology, the Haiku Association „Three Rivers“, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, 2017)

starac, drščući
u vrećama otpada
traži darove

a trembling old man
in search of Christmas gifts
through the bags with waste

(IRIS No. 11, the Haiku Association „Three Rivers, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia 2017)

Haiku translated by the author.

Sources:

- Anthologies Nepokošeno nebo/An Unmown Sky 1 and 2, Croatia, 2011 and 2018

- IRIS International, Year 7^th, No.7, 2021, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia

https://www.centarkulture.com/vida-pust-skrgulja/

http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/si/v.pust.skrglja/v.pust.skrglja.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EE3cAFpXfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3yUjkGncM

https://lokalni.vecernji.hr/gradovi/cudesan-svijet-fosila-mamuta-morskih-hridi-i-podzemnih-spilja-u-muzeju-ivanic-grada-5707

https://www.magicus.info/alternativci-i-korisnici/preporuci-knjigu-tehniku-alternativca/vida-pust-skrgulja

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/381501

https://haikupedia.org/article-haikupedia/haiku-in-croatia/

https://tri-rijeke-haiku.hr/?cat=8&lang=en

This profile was created in collaboration with Djurdja Vukelić-Rožić and Zdenko Vanjek, who took the photograph. We appreciate their invaluable help in preparing Vida Pust Škrgulja’s biography.

Marinko Španović

(1955-2011)

Marinko Španović was born in Samobor, Croatia in 1955. He has been writing within the literary group ‘Katarza’ in Samobor since 1975. His haiku have been published in many haiku journals and magazines, such as South-West, Daily Yomiuri, Mainichi Daily News, Feasta, Woodpecker, and others. Marinko edited over 30 haiku collections and anthologies, and wrote a number of book reviews. He was a selector and a translator to and from English, presented in many anthologies. Marinko has published six books: two books of poetry and four bilingual haiku collections. He was also an editor at Sparrow (Vrabac) – the magazine of the Croatian Haiku Association. Marinko was not only one of the most presented Croatian haiku poets but he also won numerous awards and honours both national and international.

Marinko Španović died unexpectedly in Samobor on 8 July 2011.

Awards and Other Honours:

• Third Place, 300th Anniversary of Basho's 'Oku No Hosomichi' and Days of Japanese Culture and 'NHK' Japanese TV (1988);
• Mainichi Haiku Contest (1998);
• Toranomon Haiku Newsletter by Sakuzo Takada (1999), 101 Haiku (edited by Sakuzo Takada and Fusao Maki); Favourite Haiku, Tom Noyes, Azami Yutaka Ikokku Santo (1998);
• Commendation by Polish Haiku Society for haiku cyclus Slavonske šume/Forests of Slavonia and for long time collaboration (2000);
• Choice of haiku, The Herb Barrett Award (Hamilton, Canada, 2000);
• Mainichi Daily News Haiku Column (June 2001);
• Commendation, Haiku Calendar/Rokovnik, Ludbreg, Internationl Haiku contest in English (2001);
• Honourable Mention, HIA 4th haiku contest (2002);
• Award, Ito-En, International Haiku Contest (2003);
• First Prize, Haiku Day, Dubravko Ivančan (Krapina, 2003);
• Third Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2003);
• Commendation, The 39th A-Bomb Memorial Day (2005), Third Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (Kumamoto, Japan, 2005);
• 22nd Prize, Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2005);
• Honourable Mention, Mainichi Haiku Contest (2005);
• First Prize, Haiku Day, Dubravko Ivančan (Krapina, 2006);
• Genkissu! Spirits Up! World Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest Award in Japan (2007);
• Second Prize - Kloštar Ivanić Haiku Contest, Croatian language category (2010).

Books and some other publications:

• Planinski vjetar / Mountain Wind, Edition Matsuo Basho, Haiku poetry, Razvigor, Požega (Ex-Yugoslavia, 1988);
• Duga / The Rainbow, Haiku poetry, Edition Matsuo Basho, Dom kulture Odžaci (Ex-Yugoslavia, 1989);
• Poljubac svjetlosti / Kiss of Light (Hrvatsko haiku društvo: Samobor, 1995);
• Brbljanje o neizrecivom / Gassing about the Unspeakable (Hrvatsko haiku društvo: Samobor, 1998);
• Otvoren put/Free Road, Anthology, editors: Marijan Cekolj, Marinko Spanovic, Samobor 1999);
• haiku selected for inclusion in William J. Higginson's Haiku World, An International Poetry Almanac (Kodansha International, 1996);  
• 10 haiku selected for inclusion in A. Duhaime's Canadian Anthology, Haiku Without Borders (1998); haiku selected for inclusion in Knots: The Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry [edited by Dimitar Anakiev and Jim Kacian] (Prijatelj, Slovenia, 1999; distributed by Red Moon Press).

Selected work:

dječji crtež
iste su boje tenk
vojnik i sunce

a child's drawing:
the same color for tank,
for soldier, and sun

(Haiku in Wartime (Croatian Haiku Association, 1992); also in Frogpond 22:2 (1999)

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nastupa zima;
očevim češljem gladim
svoju kosu

winter setting in;
with my dad's comb
I stroke my hair

(Third Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2005)

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proljetna kiša
poskakuje poklopac
zakipjelog graha

spring rain—
the lid is hopping
over boiling beans

(Third Place, 300th Anniversary of Basho's 'Oku No Hosomichi' and Days of Japanese Culture and 'NHK' Japanese TV (1988)

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pružajući ruku
kojom prosi, skriva drugu
koje nema

extending a hand
the beggar hides the other
he hasn't got

(William J. Higginson: Haiku World, An International Poetry Almanac (Kodansha International, 1996)

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ledeni siječanj
kosti drveća škrguću                                
u zubima sunca

iced January
trees’ bones gnashing
in the sun’s teeth

( 7. haiku dan/7th Haiku Day - Dubravko Ivančan, Krapina 2006 - 1. nagrada/1st Prize)

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božićno jutro:
tri ljeta od očeve smrti
miriše škija

Christmas morning;
three years from my dad’s death
the smell of his tobacco...

(Haiku Calendar/Rokovnik, Ludbreg 2001, Internationl Haiku contest in English – Commendation)

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munja terasom
a potom grmljavina
napuni prazne čaše

lightning on the terrace

afterwards the thunder fills
... our empty glasses...

(Mainichi Daily News Haiku Column, June 2001)

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slijepčev štap
osluškuje vodu
u lokvici

a blind man’s stick
listening to water
in the puddle

(Ito-En, International Haiku Contest, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 - 5th Place Award)

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Isa Isa oh,
kako je teško
voljeti muhe

Issa Issa
it’s so hard to love
the flies

(101 Haiku edited by Sakuzo Takada and Fusao Maki, Toranomon Haiku, Newsletter by Sakuzo Takada, 1999)

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zimsko jutro
sestra je osmijehom
proširila nebo

- Winter morning
my sister widens the sky
with her laughter

(Woodpecker, magazine for sharing haiku, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, No. 2/2002)

Sources:

• http://www.magicus.info/hr/magicus/tekst.php?id=72406
• http://www.samoborskiglasnik.net/zivot.asp?datum=20110711
• http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/poet-details/?IDclient=148
• https://www.scribd.com/doc/95422941/Antologija-hrvatskoga-haiku-pjesni%C5%A1tva
• http://www.radiosamobor.hr/2012/07/09/marinko-spanovic-pjesnik-kojeg-motika-vise-nije-htjela/
• http://www.tempslibres.org/aozora/mag/jhome.html
• http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/haiku.html

Mile Stamenković

(1952-2000)

Mile Stamenković was born in 1952 in Ogulin, Croatia. He was a medical doctor, gynaecologist and had a Master’s Degree in Medical Sciences.  He died in Rijeka in 2000. Mile was also a prominent writer and haiku poet and his poems and haiku have been published in magazines and anthologies in Croatia and abroad. He was a member of The Croatian Haiku Association and The Haiku Society of America.

Mile Stamenković started writing poetry more intensely from 1974 onward and won his first prize in 1977 in the ‘Goranovo proljeće 77’ poetry competition. From then on his poems appeared in many national and international magazines. His haiku were featured in some of the most prestigious haiku journals, anthologies and haiku-calendars (Blithe Spirit, Azami, Woodpecker, Modern Haiku, Haiku Headlines, Hobo, Paper Wasp, The Daily Yomiuri, KŌ, Frogpond, Timepieces). His haiku was also included in Haiku World, an International Poetry Almanac by W. J. Higginson, 1996.

Mile published and illustrated two books of poetry in 1976 and 1993, and a collection of haiku, Breaths of July's Linden Forests, waka and renga in 1995. In 1998 he co-edited with Jadran Zalokar a trilingual anthology of haiku poetry (in Croatian, Italian and English) - Hvatanje sjenke vjetra/ Catturare l'ombra del vento/ Grassping the Shadow of the Wind. In the same year in Rijeka, Mile Stamenković hosted the first meeting of haiku poets from that region. 

Books published:

• Poezija i ilustracije, (Poetry and illustrations), 1976;
• Poezija i ilustracije, (Poetry and illustrations), 1993;
• Dahovi srpanjskih lipika / Breaths of July's Linden Forests, waka and renga, 1995;
• Hvatanje sjenke vjetra / Catturare l’ombra del vento / Grasping the Shadow of the Wind, regionalna antologija haikua / Regional Haiku Collection, Rijeka 1999.

Selected haiku:

Uništen prostor -                                             Destroyed area -
vjetar se zaustavio                                          the wind has stopped
pod divljim kestenom.                                   under the horse-chestnut.

(An Award, 33^rd A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku Meeting Competition, Kyoto, 1999)

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Vjetar u šašu.                                                    Wind in the reed.
Divlje guske gledaju                                        The wild geese look                       
u vodu...                                                             into the water...

(Vrabac/Sparrow No. 7-10, 1994-1995)

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Next to the flutter
of the wings, the buildings
had flown through.

(In the Prime Selection for the best Croatian haiku of the year - Second Annual Haiku Competition 1994 of the Croatian Haiku Association) 

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to be waist deep
in water:  neither man
nor – fish.

(Haiku World, An International Poetry Almanac William J. Higginson; Kodansha International Tokyo-New York-London, 1996, p. 125)

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A demolished town.
The wind howls not knowing
where it would go.

(Calendar-book the Timepieces: Haiku Week-At-A-Glance 1997)

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an owl hooting…
the moon slowly siling
down the windy night

(Hvatanje sjenke vjetra/Catturare l'ombra del vento/Grasping the Shadow of the Wind, Regional Haiku Anthology. StaM, Rijeka 1999)

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In the deserted town
hungry war victims
feed the pigeons.

(Knots: The Anthology of Southeastern Europe Haiku Poetry.ed. by Dimitar Anakiev, Jim Kacian, Tolmin, Slovenia: Prijatelj Haiku Press, 1999)

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A distant offing.
Shimmering under the Sun
some fish and shells.

Daleka pučina.
Na suncu se ljeskaju
ribe i školjke.

(Karolina Riječka 2004 - 2005)

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The morning guest
shaking down the snow
of his worn out coat.

Jutarnji gost
otresa snijeg sa svog
istrošenog kaputa.

(Nepokošeno nebo/An Unmown Sky (Antologija hrvatskoga haiku-pjesništva 1996-2007/Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry 1996-2007), ed. by Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić, Ivanić Grad, 2011)

Sources:

• http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/8ee21d6108c6ac9016504459540b570f.pdf
• http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/si/m.stamenkovic/stamenkovic.htm
• http://library.foi.hr/M3/kautor.asp?B=1&css=&dlib=1&O=1&A=0000013658&Upit=STAMENKOVI%C6,%20Mile
• http://www.gendaihaiku.com/kacian/beyondkigo.html
• http://www.karolina-rijecka.com/haiku.html
• http://www.magicus.info/hr/magicus/tekst.php?id=72391
• http://simplyhaikujournal.com/past-issues/simply-haiku-2011/autumnwinter-2011/reviews/an-unmown-sky.html
• http://www.tempslibres.org/aozora/en/memo/memo05.html

This profile was created in collaboration with the Croatian poet and editor Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić. We are very grateful for her support and dedication! 

Djurdja Vukelić-Rožić

Born (1956) born/lives in Croatia.
The principal editor of IRIS International webzine. (ISSN 1849-8639)). She publishes short stories, poetry and haiku in Croatian, Kajkavian and English. She edited and translated a number of collections and anthologies including An Unmown Sky (2011) and An Unmown Sky 2 (2018).
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