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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 9 (1961)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
後藤一夫 ごとう かずお poetry prize

A poetry collection by Kazuo Goto, reportedly published with a preface by Mitsuharu Kaneko. Within the current of postwar poetry, it develops a lyricism combining introspection and a sense of the times, fitting its title of an ending chapter.

Carrying a consciousness of ending, it condenses postwar time and private inwardness into poetry.

111 pages
modern poetryintrospectionpostwar lifesense of endinglyricism
Shuko Ito いとう しゅうこ runner-up

A poetic work by Atsumu Ito. As an entry point to the later poetic style seen in his collected works, with dreams, images, childhood memory, and slippages of language, it quietly captures the presence of something arriving.

A poem that places the presence of an arrival between memory and dream.

modern poetryarrivalmemorydreamcinematic feeling