Haiku Poets Association Newcomer Award はいじんきょうかいしんじんしょう
Edition 43 (2019)
Winners
2 peopleSameiro is Masayuki Numao's first haiku collection. Arranged in three sections from works written between 2009 and 2018, it is presented as a book grounded in precise observation while carrying a sense of time and place beneath the visible scene.
A first haiku collection whose precise scenes suggest deeper currents of place and time.
Toku no Koe is Yui Fujimoto's second haiku collection, following the privately published Fusui. Against the background of her teachers and haiku circles, the book is presented as a careful gathering of quiet voices and distant presences.
A second haiku collection that gathers distant voices and presences in a transparent, carefully made volume.