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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 33 (1985)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
佐合五十鈴 さごう いすず poetry prize

Isuzu Sago's Mayu is a poetry collection whose title evokes delicate inwardness and life awaiting transformation. Its quiet layers of language hold enclosed time and an outward-moving force at once.

A poetry collection that layers inward quiet and the anticipation of transformation onto the image of a cocoon.

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成田敦 なりた あつし second prize

Atsushi Narita's Mizu no Nenrin is a poetry collection whose title brings together flowing water and layered time. Through natural images, personal perception is connected to a longer temporal scale.

A poetry collection tracing layers of memory and time through images of water and growth rings.

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