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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 2 (1953)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
長尾和男 ながお かずお poets prize

Kazuo Nagao's "Escape from Earth" is a poetry collection published soon after the war. Its title joins a cosmic sense of flight with the desire to escape the weight of reality, suggesting poems that express the era's anxiety and an impulse toward the future.

In a title that seems to shake off the weight of the earth, the anxiety of postwar poetry and its impulse toward the future resonate.

152 pages
postwar poetryfuturismspaceescapeanxiety
平光善久 ひらみつ よしひさ effort award

An early poetry collection by Yoshihisa Hiramitsu. Written against the background of the immediate postwar years and his activity in the Chubu poetry scene, it gathers poems shaped by bodily sensation, memory, nature, and everyday images.

An early collection that joins postwar unease with poetic imagination through dense metaphor and a firm sensory texture.

155 pages
postwar poetryChubu poetry scenememorybodily sensation