Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう
Edition 55 (2021)
Winners
5 peopleA poetry collection that reads like 31-character aphorisms, watching a child's growth and the suffocation of society.
The future arrives in the size of the nearest everyday life.
A poetry collection that carries Fukushima's landscape and post-disaster time, letting the sound of winter and resistance ring out.
The sound of winter knocks the land's memory awake.
A poetry collection that sharply captures the atmosphere of the future through an age of surveillance and anxiety.
There is a future murmur that numbers cannot measure.
The tenth poetry collection deepens lyrical grace while layering love and solitude, death and prayer.
Language is certainly looking at the flower that no bouquet contains.