Haiku Poets Association Newcomer Award はいじんきょうかいしんじんしょう
Edition 42 (2018)
Haiku
Winners
2 people
日下野由季
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Yuki Kusakano's second haiku collection after Inori no Ten. It gathers poems from a fruitful period in her thirties, using clear language to catch everyday life and the movement of the seasons.
From behind its translucent poems rises a fragrance like a gull in spring.
166 pages
haikuseasonsfamilysense of lifetransparent lyricism
Katsuhiro Horikiri
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Katsuhiro Horikiri's first haiku collection. It keeps the sensibility of a younger haiku poet while lightly drawing in love, the body, the city, travel, and seasonal textures.
Like an inchworm moving by drawing itself together, the language advances carefully but surely.
179 pages
haikuyounger poetsurban sensibilityloveclassical language and modernity