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Shuri Kido

きど しゅり

Kido Shuri

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1959-05-23 （Morioka, Iwate, Japan）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Resident of Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

Career

Occupations
poet, part-time university lecturer
Active Years
1979-
Affiliations
Roppongi Poets' Group, Ferris University (part-time lecturer), Joshibi University of Art and Design Graduate School (part-time lecturer)
Memberships
Roppongi Poets' Group
Influenced By
Gozo Yoshimasu, Kiwawo Nomura, Junsaburo Nishiwaki

Education

Iwate Prefectural Morioka First High School
Country: Japan
Meiji University, Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Letters
Country: Japan
Recorded as having enrolled

Awards

Rikutei Newcomer Prize
1994
Work: Furika-basho
Organization: Rikutei Editorial Board
Result: 受賞
Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (Minister of Education Award)
2010
Work: Illusory Mother
Organization: Agency for Cultural Affairs / Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Result: 受賞
Modern Poetry Hanatsubaki Prize
2012
Work: Drift Objects
Organization: Modern Poetry Hanatsubaki Prize Committee
Result: 受賞
Iwate Nippo Culture Award
2013
Organization: Iwate Nippo
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Summons

1985 poetry collection

An early collection characterized by experimental imagery and an exploration of voice.

memoryvoicefragmented imagery

Monsoon Climate Zone

1991 poetry collection

Poems that evoke a Southeast Asian climatic sensibility and bodily experiences.

naturethe bodyclimate

Furika-basho

1994 poetry collection

A collection that evokes his hometown (Morioka) and questions the relationship between language and place.

homelanguagememory

Illusory Mother

2010 poetry collection

A lyric collection addressing family and motherhood; recognized with a major new-artist award.

familymotherhoodloss

Drift Objects

2012 poetry collection

Contains prose-poem elements and linguistic experiments in contemporary poetry.

driftlinguistic experimentationfragments

Bibliography

  • Summons (1985)
  • Monsoon Climate Zone (1991)
  • Nonferrous (1993)
  • Furika-basho (1994)
  • Shuka (1994, private edition)
  • Mambou (1995)
  • Collected Poems of Shuri Kido (1996)
  • Barbaroi (1998)
  • A Thousand Names (1999)
  • Genesis of the Earth (2003)
  • Illusory Mother (2010)
  • World - Sea (2010)
  • Drift Objects (2012)
  • Poet's Summer (1994)
  • To the Sea of Potentiality (2006)

Adaptations

  • People Who See Phantoms (documentary, 2018)

Translations by Author

  • Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (1998, Japanese translation)
  • Ezra Pound, Collected Long Poems (2006, Japanese translation)
  • T. E. Hulme, Complete Poems and Drafts (2006, Japanese translation)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimental and conceptual poetryuse of fragmented imageryoccasional prose-poem elements
Recurring Motifs
memory and hometownwater and driftingmotherhood and family

Legacy

Shuri Kido has been active on the Japanese poetry scene since the 1980s, noted for combining linguistic experimentation with lyricism. His collections have received multiple awards, and he has engaged in communicating poetry through documentary production.

In Popular Culture

  • The documentary 'People Who See Phantoms' was invited to international film festivals, bringing attention to his work in film contexts.

Trivia

  • Selected as a new poet in the magazine Eureka at age 20.
  • Maintains a blog and posts on social media (X).
  • Produced a documentary film in 2018.