Shamrock Haiku Journal

Anthony Kudryavitsky, writing as Anatoly Kudryavitsky, is the owner and editor of Shamrock. Born in Moscow in 1954 of a Polish father and half-Irish mother, he lived in Russia and Germany, and now lives in Dublin as an Irish citizen. Educated at the Moscow Medical University (graduate 1978), he received a PhD in Immunology from the Moscow Medical Academy in 1987. Later, he studied Irish history and cultural heritage. In the following years he worked as a researcher in immunology, as a journalist and as a literary translator. He started writing poetry in 1978, but under the Communists was not permitted to publish his work openly. Since 1989 he has published a novel, a novella, a number of short stories, seven collections of his Russian poems, most recent being Graffiti (1998) and Visitors’ Book (2001), and a book of his English poems entitled Shadow of Time (Goldsmith Press, Ireland, 2005). His poems and short stories were translated into eleven languages. In the 1990s he edited Strelets/The Archer and Inostrannaya Literatura/Foreign Literature literary magazines, an anthology of new Russian poetry entitled Poetry of Silence (1998), and Zhuzhukiny Deti (2000), an anthology of Russian short stories and prose miniatures written in the second half of the 20^th century. A Night in the Nabokov Hotel , an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in his translation to English, was published by and is available from Dedalus Press, Ireland, 2006. Morning at Mount Ring, a collection of his haiku, has been published by and is available to order via Doghouse Books (http://www.doghousebooks.ie). From 1999 till 2004 he was on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Poetry Associations, UNESCO. He was the founder and first President of the Russian Poetry Society, as well as the founding member of the Irish Haiku Society. His haiku and senryu appeared in Frogpond, World Haiku Review, Presence, The SHOp, Roadrunner and Haiku Scotland, as well as in several anthologies, and were translated into Japanese, Croatian, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian. In 2003 he was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for poetry, in 2005 shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award. Among his haiku awards are Suruga Baika Prize of Excellence (Japan, 2007) and Capoliveri Haiku Award (Italy, 2007). He has a website at

http://kudryavitsky.webs.com