Poems of Duško Matas, CR
in the January / February 2012 Sketchbook
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About Duško Matas, CR
Duško Matas, Crotia:
Born in 1933 in Kaštel Stari by
Split, lives in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, and the Faculty of Law in
Split: specialization neurology and psychiatry,
sub-specialization a forensic psychiatrist in Zagreb. He has
a doctorate in science and a degree in law. He has published
dozens of professional and scientific papers, participated
in several vocational commissions and has taken part at
numerous professional-scientific congresses in the country
and abroad.
He has written and published Haiku since 1988 in haiku
publications, newspapers, magazines, literary journals,
miscellanies and anthologies in Croatia and 18 countries
abroad. He published three independent haiku collections and
is the editor and among the authors in the common
collections Sedam putova/Seven ways, 2000 and Novih
sedam putova/Seven New Ways, 2003 both published in
Croatian and English and Pencil and Brush (a
four-language collection in Croatian, Slovenian, English and
Japanese) with haigas. Duško Matas's haiku have been
presented in joint collections of poetry by Croatian
doctors: The Bell of Vukovar (1995), Flight of the
Sarmat Falcon (1996), An Hour of Eternity.
This is
Duško Matas' first appearance in Sketchbook.
