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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 56 (2008)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

A poetry collection by Kyoko Shibata. Centered on a long poem that begins with a misreading of a framed phrase brought home by the poet's father, it explores the mother's childhood, family memory, and the movement between places of daily life.

From a misread phrase, memories of mother and family rise into view.

124 pages
poetrymotherfamilymemory
Reira newcomer award

A poetry collection by Noriko Hayashi. Through images of a sky outside the usual seasons, birds, trees, waiting rooms, and other everyday scenes, it depicts transience and the texture of memory.

Looking up at a sky beyond the seasons, the poems open layers of memory from everyday images.

87 pages
poetryskyseasonmemory