Self portrait
Adrian Bouter (born Adriaan Hendrik Bouter in the 1960s, Gouda, the Netherlands) has worked in several jobs in different fields, ending up as a flex worker for agencies. In his twenties he began writing, mainly songs and poetry, and since about 2010 has focused on haikai. He publishes in print and online, in English, Dutch, and German. His work has appeared in some forty journals and websites, including Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, Roadrunner, Wales Haiku Journal, Tinywords, and Noon. Haiku of his have been selected for three Red Moon anthologies and four of the Gurga/Metz annual anthologies and have received nominations three times for Touchstone Individual Poems Awards. In 2021 Bouter published Langzame Regen and Van Stilte naar Stilte, haiku booklets in Dutch that featured Hokusai’s ukiyo-e, and in 2024 a full-length collection of haiku in English, Dew of Light. He was listed among the European Top 100 most creative haiku authors for 2013–2025. Bouter resides near Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.