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Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award
2015
VLADIMIR DEVIDÉ HAIKU AWARD 2015
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VLADIMIR DEVIDÉ HAIKU AWARD 2015
The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award was founded by Dr. Drago Štambuk, at the time Croatian Ambassador to Japan, and Dr. Joseph Haldane, President of IAFOR, and named in tribute to Vladimir Devidé’s vision and passion for haiku.
The award is based on literary merit, regardless of whether written in the traditional or modern style. As such, it aims to transcend haiku divisions in the unifying spirit of Vladimir Devidé. The Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award is proudly organised by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) as part of The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship (LibrAsia).
Dr. A. Robert Lee, internationally recognized critic, author and poet, and LibrAsia2015 Keynote Speaker, announced the winners of the 5th Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award during the Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2015 in Osaka, Japan.
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FOREWORD
The Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award is now in its fifth year, and I am very proud to see that this year’s event grew to four hundred submissions from fifty-four countries, attesting to the international popularity of this award, as well as the enduring appeal of haiku.
A Japanese organization in origin, the International Academic Forum now hosts more than forty events every year over three continents, and is a keen supporter and promoter of the Arts, with international competitions in film, photography and literature.
Haiku is a quintessentially Japanese form of poetry, and has become one of the country’s greatest gifts to the world as it has been adopted and adapted internationally, so now there are many thousands of poets writing in myriad countries and languages.
One such country is Croatia, where haiku has a large following, and happens to be the country of both Vladimir Devidé, in whose honour the award
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is named, and Drago Štambuk, the founding judge of the competition, as well as Boris Nazansky, this year’s Grand Prize Winner.
Nazansky’s poem is a wonderful example of the haunting, suggestive, and minimalist beauty of haiku, and attests to the extremely high standard of entries to this award as it continues to grow in reach and prestige.
I am sure that you will be impressed by the diversity and range of poems selected this year by Dr. Štambuk, which take the reader on an emotional roller coaster through their sparse verse. Hold on for the ride!
Dr. Joseph HaldaneNagoya, April 2015
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IAFOR would like to thank His Excellency Dr. Drago Štambuk, founding judge of the Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award and critic and poet Dr. A. Robert Lee, LibrAsia2015 Keynote Speaker, who announced the winning entries.
We would also like to thank the Haiku International Association for their continued support of the event, particularly its President, Dr. Akito Arima, as well as Hana Fujimoto and Emiko Miyashita, both members of the Haiku International Association Board of Councillors and Featured Haiku Workshop Presenters at LibrAsia2015.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
二 Vladimir Devidé 19
三 Drago Štambuk 23
四 Grand Prize 31
五 Runner Up 35
六 Commended 55
七 Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2016 103
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VLADIMIR DEVIDÉ
Despite a successful international academic career as a renowned mathematician, with professorships in Australia and the US, as well as his native Croatia at the University of Zagreb, it is primarily as a Japanologist and haiku poet that Vladimir Devidé is now remembered. Devidé was not only one of the world’s most celebrated haiku poets, but a tireless promoter of Japanese culture. If Croatia is now considered a Haiku “superpower”, with more poets practicing the art per capita than any other nation, it is largely thanks to his efforts. A full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Vladimir Devidé has won a number of awards and honours, including the Le Prix CIDALC (1977), the Prize of the City of Zagreb (1982), and for his work as a promoter of Japanese culture, the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure (1983). Vladimir Devidé died in August 2010.
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DR. DRAGO ŠTAMBUK
His Excellency Dr. Drago Štambuk is the Croatian Ambassador to Brazil, a post he took up in early 2011, after five years as Ambassador to Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Dr. Štambuk is a widely published and acclaimed poet, and is now recognized as one of Croatia’s most distinguished men of letters. His writing career began in 1973 and has grown to include more than 40 collections of poetry in Croatian, English, French and Spanish, and his work has been included in all relevant anthologies of Croatian contemporary poetry. The ambassador has received numerous literary awards in his native country and abroad, and was the first recipient of Dragutin Tadijanovic Award established in 2008 by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also a founder and director of the All-Croatian Poetry Festival on the Island of Brač, founded in 1991.
As well as his writing, Dr. Štambuk has had two separate careers as both a medical doctor and
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a diplomat. A graduate of Zagreb University’s Medical School (1974), he went on to specialize in internal medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology at the Clinical Medical Center in Zagreb, before moving to London in 1983 to continue his medical career at both the Royal Free Hospital and St Stephen’s.
Following the independence of Croatia in 1991, he became a diplomat, and has served as the Croatian ambassador to various countries, including India and Egypt, and from 2005 was named as Croatia’s representative in Tokyo. His brief was expanded to include the Republic of Korea in 2006.
The ambassador was a Fellow at Harvard University from 2001 to 2002. He was appointed to the IAFOR International Advisory Board in 2010 as the conference chair for the first Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2011, and instituted the Vladimir Devidé Haiku award as a tribute to Devidé, who had died earlier in 2010, serving as the judge since 2011.
VLADIMIR DEVIDÉ HAIKU AWARDSELECTED HAIKU 2015
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Grand Prize
pregnancyshape of the dark sideof the crescent moon
Boris Nazansky, Croatia
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Runner Up
spring skya seagull enters
our selfie
Rosa Clement, Brazil
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Runner Up
evening lulla seaside cave exhaling
butterflies
Anthony Kudryavitsky, Ireland
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Runner Up
first glimpseof her mastectomy bra
winter rose
Chen-ou Liu, Canada
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Runner Up
silence…leaves are fallingall by themselves
Dubravko Korbus, Croatia
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Runner Up
the snow-spinning windI dream of only big trees
in my prison yard
Alan Summers, UK
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Runner Up
after the sunseta white chrysanthemum
lights quite alone
Vasile Moldovan, Romania
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Runner Up
summer night…a worm bites through the silence
in a fallen acorn
Milan Dragović, Serbia
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Runner Up
the shadow of the fishhides
in the shadow of a leaf
Jim Kacian, USA
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Runner Up
shiningin a drop of dew
all His love
Nikola Đuretić, Croatia
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Commended
rustling pages –in the library the echo
of the past forests
Eduard Tara, Romania
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Commended
spring breezehow the broken willow
still yearns
Timothy Russell, USA
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Commended
news of warthe red welt of a tick bite
slowly spreads
Vanessa Proctor, Australia
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Commended
a shirt hungon the birch tree branch –
a man in its shadow
Dušan Mijajlović Adski, Serbia
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Commended
old templereflected on its floor
red maple leaves
Yukiko Yamada, Japan
65
Commended
how his breath catcheswhen I undress –
double mastectomy
Susan Burch, USA
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Commended
the homeless mantides up his new residence
approaching storm
Emmanuel Kalusian, Nigeria
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Commended
roadside poppiesthe prostitute
is knitting a crown
Detelina Tiholova, Bulgaria
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Commended
All Souls’ Day.In an empty grave
bugs’ home.
Sergio Francisco Pichorim, Brazil
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Commended
atrophied right handpoetry loves frailty
so write with what’s left
Fareed Ben-Youssef, USA
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Commended
evening visitor –a leaf steps inside
on a gummed shoe
Darrell Lindsey, USA
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Commended
picture on the wallman’s eyes look at me
unblinking
Štefanija Ludvig, Croatia
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Commended
between there and herethe essence
of a snowflake
Julie Warther, USA
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Commended
so many shooting stars –and yet the sky remains
in its place
Iulian Ciupitu, Romania
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Commended
old beachcomberone eye
on the horizon
Scott Mason, USA
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Commended
Uranium doses.How can a flower endure
all that radiation?
Raad Kareem Abd-Aun, Iraq
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Commended
Out of the freezerinto the earth –
my dead cat.
Daniel Gahnertz, Italy
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Commended
elderly nunabsently picks a flower
…he loves me not
Jeanne Jorgensen, Canada
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Commended
The most difficultof all that I experienced:
silence of God.
Svetomir Đurbabić, Serbia
93
Commended
aerospace museumthe ascending moon looks in
lunar rover’s hall
Vitali Khomin, Ukraine
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Commended
summer’s endthe taste of lettuce
gone to seed
Seren Fargo, USA
97
Commended
braidthe smell of her hair lingers
on my palms
Margolak Jacek, Poland
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Commended
shifting tidesshe now sings
her mother’s lullaby
Christine L. Villa, USA
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VLADIMIR DEVIDÉ HAIKU AWARD 2016
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) will begin accepting submissions for the 6th Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award on June 1st, 2015. If you would like to enter the award, please visit iafor.org/haiku for rules and entry procedures.
The Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award was created to celebrate classical and modern haiku, both those poems that follow the traditional form and those that play with it. Though traditionally Japanese, haiku has become a global art form. In keeping with IAFOR’s international scope, we welcome haiku submissions from around the world.
Further information on the award, including previous winning submissions, can be found by scanning the following QR code with a mobile phone, or by visiting iafor.org/haiku.
Cover ImageHydrangea and Swallow, from the series Large Flowers, c. 1833-1834.ArtistKatsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
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Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award 2015
The Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award was founded as a tribute to Vladimir Devidé’s vision and passion for haiku. The Award is based on literary merit, regardless of whether written in the traditional or modern style, and is proudly organised by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) as part of The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship (LibrAsia).
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