Japan Poets Club Award
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (1981) award
Baku Suzuki
すずき ばく
Suzuki Baku
Pen Names:
Baku Suzuki（Pen name (legal name Tetsujirō Suzuki)）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1936-10-12 （Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Poet
- Active Years
- 1958-
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 14th Japan Poets Club Prize | Tōei Fūga (Projection Elegance) | — | Japan Poets Club | 受賞 |
| 1989 | 2nd Renkukai Recommended Books Award | Kaichijō (Sea Market Notebooks) | — | Renkukai (Renga Association) | 受賞 |
| 1994 | 18th Iuue Culture Prize (Arts and Culture Division) | — | 文化芸術部門 | Iuue Culture Prize Committee | 受賞 |
| 2002 | 28th Tokushima Prefecture Cultural Prize | — | — | Tokushima Prefecture | 受賞 |
14th Japan Poets Club Prize
1980
Work:
Tōei Fūga (Projection Elegance)
Organization:
Japan Poets Club
Result:
受賞
2nd Renkukai Recommended Books Award
1989
Work:
Kaichijō (Sea Market Notebooks)
Organization:
Renkukai (Renga Association)
Result:
受賞
18th Iuue Culture Prize (Arts and Culture Division)
1994
Category:
文化芸術部門
Organization:
Iuue Culture Prize Committee
Result:
受賞
28th Tokushima Prefecture Cultural Prize
2002
Organization:
Tokushima Prefecture
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Tōei Fūga (Projection Elegance)
1980 Poetry collectionA poetry collection layering abstract imagery and landscape depiction, exploring relations between sound and meaning in language. Published in 1980.
landscapesonority of languagememory
Kaichijō (Sea Market Notebooks)
1989 Renga/Linked-verse collectionA collection organized in the linked-verse (renku) form, containing renku themed around the sea and visual motifs.
searepetitive/choral imagerytradition and modernity
Collected Poems of Baku Suzuki
2001 Poetry collectionA representative selection published in the Shichōsha Modern Poetry Library, compiling works across many years of his poetry.
colornature depictionlinguistic experimentation
Bibliography
- Hoshi to Hashen (Star and Wreck) — 1958
- Sakana no Kuchi (Fish's Mouth) — 1963
- Sharin (Wheels) — 1967
- Nijū Boin (Diphthongs) — 1973
- Fūkeiron (On Landscapes) — 1977
- Tōei Fūga (Projection Elegance) — 1980
- Kaichijō (Sea Market Notebooks) — 1989
- Collected Poems of Baku Suzuki — 2001
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Abstract, sonically attentive poetic styleDialogic renku sensibility and engagement with tradition
- Recurring Motifs
- sealandscapecolormemory
Legacy
As a poet from a regional background, he built a distinct poetic world through poetry collections and renku over decades, contributing to cultural life in Tokushima and beyond. He is regarded as part of the postwar Japanese poetry landscape.
Archives
- National Diet Library (holdings reference)
Trivia
- Legal name Tetsujirō Suzuki.
- Co-founded the poetry journal "Umi" (Sea) in 1959.
- Born in Tokushima City and spent early childhood in the Iya region.