Nexus Haiku, October 2019
Nexus Haiku
From left to right: Dejan Pavlinović, Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić reading Nexus Haiku (Photo
by Zdenko Vanjek)
On October 6th, 2019, at the 6th Annual Bučijada Haiku Meeting in Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, it was our pleasure to present six haiku and one senryu, each of which was composed co-operatively and equally by all three of us.
During a one year span we composed a total of 85 haiku and senryu that in each instance was written collaboratively either in pairs or as a group of three. We discovered that working together on each poem created an ebb-and-flow, push-and-pull process. Composing stand-alone collaborative haiku provided continual opportunities for the organic expressions of complementary energies; complexities of ideas; shifts of perspectives; and juxtapositions of personal and cultural experiences, perceptions, and memories. Since this process represents intersection and unity, each poem is an example of nexus: a central focal point of connection. Consequently, we call our collaborative autonomous poems Nexus Haiku.
Following, are the poems we read at the 6th Annual Bučijada Haiku Meeting:
cafe door hinges
singing all morning
off-beat in rain
kišno jutro -
vratne šarke kafića
pjevaju u off-beatu
bora wind begins
the fragrance of prosciutto
in waves
okrenulo na buru
zamirisao pršut
u refulima
approaching
her scent before her kiss
flower moon
njen miris
prije njenog poljupca
cvjetni mjesec
hibiscus tea
sip by sip among roses
and crickets
čaj od hibiskusa
guc po guc među ružama
i cvrčcima
angler
the new moon
casting a long light
ribič
mladi mjesec
baci dugo svjetlo
cigarette ash
still keeping its shape∼
shed skin of a snake
još drži oblik
pepeo cigarete∼
odbačena zmijska koža
Sunday brunch . . .
today's main course
of yesterday's discussion
nedjeljni ručak . . .
od jučerašnje rasprave
današnje glavno jelo
MICHAEL DUDLEY was born in Toronto, Canada, and has been a haiku poet for over 40 years. His writing has been internationally published in newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is a member of Haiku Canada and the Haiku Society of America.
TOMISLAV MARETIĆ is from Zagreb, Croatia. He has been writing haiku for more than 40 years and his haiku have been published in many national and international magazines, anthologies, journals and on-line haiku magazines. He is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association.
DEJAN PAVLINOVIĆ is from Pula, Croatia, and has been writing haiku since 2007. His haiku poems have been published in various national and international haiku magazines, journals, newspapers, websites and anthologies.
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NEXUS haiku
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Pages: 120
Size: 10 1/2" x 7 1/4"
ISBN: 97895359233-1-2
Announcements:
JOURNEY ONGOING, a major collection of haiku primarily inspired by Michael Dudley's domestic and international travels has been published June 2023. It is his first solo volume of haiku since 2017.
Available online from Amazon BooksFeatured Haiku, Naviar Records, April 2023 and December 2020.
INTERCHANGE is the winner of the 2022 "Borivoj Buka Award," International Haiku Category, presented by the Croatian Literary Society, Rijeka, Croatia, November 2022.
INTERCHANGE, a collaborative collection including an introduction and photographs by Tom Clausen along with haiku and prose commentary by Michael Dudley, has been published August 2022.
Available online from Amazon BooksFeatured Author, "Mann Library Daily Haiku," Cornell University, January 1 - 31, 2022.
NEXUS haiku is the winner of the 2021 “Borivoj Bukva Award,” for best haiku collection published in Croatia, presented by the Croatian Literary Society, Rijeka, Croatia, November, 2021.
NEXUS haiku, volume of cross-cultural, bilingual haiku, senryu, sequences, and rengay, co-written with Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović, published in Pula, Croatia, October 2021.
Available online from Amazon BooksHaikuLife 2021 The Haiku Foundation and YouTube: Video Haiga by Mel and Michael Dudley: "Easter Monday," "Sidewalk Ice," and "First Son Fishes."
Buciada Haiku Meeting, October 2019, Ivanic-Grad, Croatia: Group Reading of cross-cultural, collaborative "NEXUS Haiku."
Zagreb Literary Talks, Zagreb, Croatia: Lecture titled "Reciprocal Synthesis," presented at the Croatian Writers' Association, October, 2019, followed by publication in Most/The Bridge.
Association of Literature and Nekazano Publishing, Bar, Montenegro: "Readings from pilgrimage," February 2019.
Night of Culture and Arts, Golubovci, Montenegro: Guest Panelist, "Celebration of Creativity," January 2019.
Buciada Haiku Meeting, October 2018, Ivanic-Grad, Croatia: Address titled "In Praise of Gourds and Haiku," presented at the Three Rivers Haiku Association, October 2019, followed by publication in Iris.
Rijeka Literary Matinee, Rijeka, Croatia: "Readings from pilgrimage," October 2018.
Gradska Radionica, Pula, Croatia: Writer in Residence; Group Performance of cross-cultural, integrated arts project, "Synergy Ensemble," November 2018.
From Kanata Canada, published as a Haiku Canada Sheet, 2017.
pilgrimage, volume of selected haiku, published by Red Moon Press, 2017.
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2023Inspired primarily by his domestic and international travels, Michael Dudley's JOURNEY ONGOING is a major volume of 175 haiku that also includes an illuminative preface, colour photos and fonts, and nine translations. His poems extensively and comprehensively explore both inspirational experiences and moments, as well as a vast range of poetic styles, structures, forms, contents, and themes. Order Now
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2022INTERCHANGE is a unique collaboration whose interrelated contents deftly illume and affect. Designed for readers who appreciate the haiku form, the volume also serves as an excellent resource for literature and creative writing teachers as well as a source of understanding and inspiration for students.
In the introduction, Tom Clausen details the origination and development of the Mann Library Daily Haiku project that he began over three decades ago and now represents a critical source and record of international poetry.
In the pages that follow, 31 of his photographs are paired with an equal selection of Michael Dudley’s haiku and correlated prose commentary in which Dudley discusses the circumstances and inspiration of each poem. Order Now
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NEXUS haiku is a co-authored, cross-cultural, bilingual collection of 85 stand-alone haiku and senryu, five sequences, and five rengay that were equally co-created, composed collaboratively in person and online from October 2018 - August 2021.
In the foreword, Sanela Pliško states that the volume is a "journey through seasons, villages and towns, seas and mountains, from which one can read a combination of the authors' experiences as if they lived one life."
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2019Melodic and luminous, insightfully humorous, continuously wondrous — the evocative and provocative haiku of pilgrimage lead the reader on a compelling, encompassing journey of body, mind, and spirit. Selected from his 15 previous collections, including some of his earliest work and many of his most recent poems, pilgrimage is the definitive expression of Michael Dudley’s distinctive achievement.
Foreword by Richard R. Powell.
Wood Engravings by Wesley W. Bates.
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