Shamrock Haiku Journal

Anthony (Anatoly) Kudryavitsky is the founder 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 Moscow Medical University (graduate 1978), he received a PhD in Immunology from 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 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 nine 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. His most recent publication is the anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled A Night in the Nabokov Hotel (Dedalus Press, Ireland, 2006) that he translated and edited. 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 Presence, The SHOp, Roadrunner and Haiku Scotland, and were translated into Croatian. 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). In 2003 he was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for poetry, in 2005 shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award. He has a website at

http://uk.geocities.com/akudryavitsky