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Edition 14 (2006)

Modern poetry

Winners

6 people

アストロノート by 松本圭二 is an award-recognized work built around long-form poetry, urban sensibility, a divided self. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.

アストロノート draws the reader into a story shaped by long-form poetry.

253 pages
long-form poetryurban sensibilitya divided self

回転子 by 高屋一成 is an award-recognized work built around images of rotation, contemporary poetry, further source checking. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.

回転子 draws the reader into a story shaped by images of rotation.

images of rotationcontemporary poetryfurther source checking
Hirotoshi Ikawa nominee

幸福 KOFUKU by 井川博年 is an award-recognized work built around poetry and language, the paradox of happiness, memory. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.

幸福 KOFUKU draws the reader into a story shaped by poetry and language.

127 pages
poetry and languagethe paradox of happinessmemory

やわらかい檻 by 川口晴美 is an award-recognized work built around soft confinement, memory, contemporary poetry. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.

やわらかい檻 draws the reader into a story shaped by soft confinement.

111 pages
soft confinementmemorycontemporary poetry
Seiji Tsutsumi nominee

鷲がいて by 辻井喬 is an award-recognized work built around poetry collection, postwar sensibility, resistance. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.

鷲がいて draws the reader into a story shaped by poetry collection.

119 pages
poetry collectionpostwar sensibilityresistance
Kiyomi Konagaya nominee

A poetry collection by Kiyomi Konagaya that unsettles everyday cracks and bodily sensations through nonsense gestures and sharp social awareness. Its verbal leaps create both intimacy and unease.

Words move like mud, shifting the outline of the world.

110 pages
contemporary poetrynonsensebodily sensation