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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 28 (1980)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
Takashi Mizuno みずの たかし poetry prize

A poetry collection gathering Mizuno Takashi's work. Against the landscapes of Oku-Mino, Shinshu, and surrounding regions, it weaves place-rooted voices and memories into poems shaped by local life and lyric feeling.

A collection that places local memory and everyday voices at the core of lyric poetry.

lyric poetryOku-Minolocal climatememory of placedaily life
渡辺正也 わたなべ まさや second prize

“Bara Jikan no Hizai” is a poetry collection by Masaya Watanabe. Joining the highly abstract words rose, time, and absence, it lets memory and the sense of existence tremble in a place slightly displaced from reality. Published as a limited edition, it is a taut volume of modern poetry.

Roses, time, and absence quietly stir the shadows of memory.

152 pages
modern poetryrosetimeabsencememory