Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう
Edition 54 (2020)
Winners
5 peopleA poetry collection that catches the varying pace of daily life and the time of aging, family, and place.
Both slowness and speed become the texture of living.
A collection that uses the gaze of hospitality to question resistance to the times and the meaning of community.
Hospitality does not end with gentleness.
A poetry collection that carries the shadows of care and loss while letting the quiet of autumn nights resonate deeply.
The night is quiet, yet many times ring inside the poems.
A poetry collection that looks at the passing of seasons and memory through the image of bird shadows.
The shadow is light, but the time it points to is deep.
A poetry collection that layers transparent language around the border between life and death.
From a single stone flower, language moves back and forth across life and death.