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Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう

Edition 55 (2021)

Tanka

Winners

5 people
Machi Tawara たわら まち award

A 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.

184 pages
歌集アフォリズム子ども社会
波汐國芳 なみしお くによし nominee

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.

200 pages
歌集福島震災
Ryuichiro Fujiwara ふじわら りゅういちろう nominee

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.

166 pages
歌集未来監視不安
Shion Mizuhara みずはら しおん nominee

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.

188 pages
歌集孤独祈り
Nobuhiro Yanagi やなぎ のぶひろ nominee