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Japan Poets Club Newcomer Award

にほんしじんくらぶしんじんしょう

A literary award sponsored by the Japan Poets Club that recognizes newcomer poetry collections.

Contemporary poetryLiterary award
Established
1991
Organizer
Japan Poets Club
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Newcomer
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around February–April
Status
Active

Description

Established in 1991, it aims to recognize and widely recommend to society outstanding poetry collections by newcomers published within that year.

Prize

Main Prize
Bronze statue (grand prize)
Cash Prize
200,000 JPY

Related Awards

  • H Award
  • Japan Poets Club Award

Official Resources

http://japan-poets-club.d.dooo.jp/award/award_new.html

Past Winners

丸田麻保子 まるた まほこ award
井嶋りゅう いじま りゅう award
北島理恵子 きたじま りえこ award
二条千河 にじょう ちか award

『亡骸のクロニクル』は、峻烈で明晰な言葉で生と死の謎に向き合う二条千河の詩集。

Nogarae no Chronicle is a poetry collection by Chika Nijo that confronts the mystery of life and death with severe and lucid language.

96 pages
詩集生と死現代詩言葉
海東セラ かいとう せら award

"ドールハウス" is a 受賞 work from the Japan Poets Club Newcomer Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Japan Poets Club Newcomer Award 2021-1.

Japan Poets Club Newcomer Awardaward-winning work
野口やよい のぐち やよい award

A poetry collection by Yayoi Noguchi that gently captures the breath of everyday life.

Looking up at the sky becomes poetry itself.

96 pages
poetryeveryday lifeobservationlyricism
川井麻希 かわい まき award

A poetry collection by Maki Kawai. In three sections, it follows the sensations of days and nights, shaping the tremors of life suggested by innocence, recollection, mourning, and living.

Between day and night, the presence of daily life rises as a poetic voice.

94 pages
poetrydaily lifenightmemorymourninglife
田中俊輔 たなか しゅんすけ award

Shunsuke Tanaka's second poetry collection asks what it means to exist in a misty mountain home, looking toward the pulse of life and hope for the future. It raises the theme of existence from bodily sensation and lived place.

From a misty mountain valley, a voice questioning the self searches for a bridge toward the future.

108 pages
poetryexistenceself-inquirymountain valleylifehope
岡田ユアン おかだ ゆあん award

Yuan Okada's Suiten no Utsuroi is a poetry collection that received the Japan Poets Club Newcomer Award. As the title suggests, with water and sky seeming to merge, the poems delicately translate shifts in perception and landscape into language.

An award-winning debut poetry collection that places shifting perception between water and sky.

96 pages
poetry collectionwaterskyperceptionnewcomer award
草野早苗 くさの さなえ award

Sanae Kusano's second poetry collection layers images of memory, rain, night, and distant light, drawing out presences and traces that remain within silence.

A poetry collection that listens for landscapes held in the soul while searching for light in the night.

91 pages
contemporary poetrymemorynight and lightsilencelandscape
颯木あやこ さつき あやこ award

七番目の鉱石 is a 詩歌作品 work by 颯木あやこ associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.

七番目の鉱石 by 颯木あやこ is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

award-winning workbibliographic verification詩歌作品
石下典子 いしした のりこ award

うつつみ is a 詩集 by 石下典子 associated with the award record. The entry checks public bibliographic sources, award documentation, and book-trade records to identify its publication status and reading context.

うつつみ by 石下典子 is a work whose publication status and outline can be traced through award records.

996 pages
award recordbibliographic verificationJapanese literature
中島真悠子 なかじま まゆこ award

錦繍植物園 is a work by 中島真悠子, recorded here as a 受賞 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.

A concise profile of 錦繍植物園 by 中島真悠子, including award and bibliographic context.

96 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
池田順子 いけだ じゅんこ award

The Sky in a Puddle is a Japanese literary work that explores memory, relationships, self-discovery. It presents its subject through a focused narrative or poetic frame shaped by the work's award context.

The Sky in a Puddle presents its award-winning themes in an accessible literary form.

memoryrelationshipsself-discovery
大野直子 おおの なおこ award

Naoko Ono's poetry collection Bakeno looks at the comedy and sadness of living through dry landscapes and bodily sensations, including bleached reed beds and the feeling of switching power off. In quiet solitude, it descends into otherworldly places beneath everyday life.

Beyond the bleached reed beds, loneliness and a strange humor spread at once.

107 pages
solitudebodily sensationotherworldly landscapes
Megumi Watanabe わたなべ めぐみ award

Megumi Watanabe’s third poetry collection faces the pain of living. Against a background of care and loss, it searches in quiet language for inner places, unhealed wounds, and traces of light.

A poetry collection standing in places that do not fully heal, waiting for faint signs of light.

141 pages
modern poetrypain of livingcaregivinglossinner place
伊与部恭子 いよべ きょうこ award

来訪者 is a poetry work that layers sound, bodily sensation, memory, and solitude into a sequence of quiet images.

来訪者 is a prize-recognized work by 伊与部恭子.

modern poetrymemorybodily sensation
倉本侑未子 くらもと ゆみこ award

真夜中のパルス is a poetry work that layers sound, bodily sensation, memory, and solitude into a sequence of quiet images.

真夜中のパルス is a prize-recognized work by 倉本侑未子.

modern poetrymemorybodily sensation
Keiko Saito さいとう けいこ award

無月となのはな is a work by 斎藤恵子. 『無月となのはな』は斎藤恵子による作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。

無月となのはな presents 斎藤恵子's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.

文学賞受賞作
肌勢とみ子 はだせ とみこ award

そぞろ心 is a work by 肌勢とみ子 selected for the 日本詩人クラブ新人賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

そぞろ心

125 pages
poetrycontemporary poetrylanguage
岡野絵里子 おかの えりこ award

発語 is a 詩集 by 岡野絵里子. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.

A focused 詩集 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

family and memoryself-discoverysocial pressure
竹内美智代 たけうち みちよ award

A poetry collection by Michiyo Takeuchi. Taking the image of a cut-through road as its cue, it looks at paths, boundaries, and memory in contemporary poetic form.

A collection that reads memory and voice into the passage opened where a road cuts through land.

contemporary poetrypathsboundariesmemory
Hoshi Yoshihiro ほし よしひろ award

Suiso no Mori is a poetry collection by Yoshihiro Hoshi. It layers images of forest and water to evoke loss and memory through quiet lyricism.

The image of a forest submerged in water quietly calls forth the texture of memory and loss.

95 pages
modern poetryforestwaterlossmemory
吉田義昭 よしだ よしあき award

A poetic work that uses Galileo and nearby figures from the history of science as motifs while building fictional voices and dialogue around them. It links the light of scientific history with inner human landscapes and memories of home.

ガリレオが笑った is a work in which 吉田義昭 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

history of sciencepoetic dramaNagasaki
No winner
網谷厚子 あみたに あつこ award

万里 by 網谷厚子 is known as a 日本詩人クラブ新人賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

万里 is an award-recognized work by 網谷厚子.

194 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturerelationships
佐々木朝子 ささき あさこ award

砂の声 is a work by 佐々木朝子 recognized by the 日本詩人クラブ新人賞. It is introduced here as the prize-winning work itself, with the available publication data checked against Japanese bibliographic sources.

砂の声 brought wider attention to 佐々木朝子's writing through its prize recognition.

83 pages
Poetry collectionPrize-winning workModern Japanese literature
白井知子 しらい ともこ award

あやうい微笑 is 刊行作品 by 白井知子. It is presented here as the award-recognized work.

The work offers a way into 白井知子's literary expression.

91 pages
award-recognized literature
樋口伸子 ひぐち のぶこ award

"あかるい天気予報" is a poetry work by 樋口伸子. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.

"あかるい天気予報" is recognized as a poetry work.

poetry workaward-winning work
橋浦洋志 はしうら ひろし award

A poetry collection on Minamata, looking at the pain of place, body, and society through poetic language.

A poetry collection on Minamata, looking at the pain of place, body, and society through poetic language.

poetryMinamatasocietybody
鈴木有美子 すずき ゆみこ award

細胞律 is a work by 鈴木有美子 associated with the 日本詩人クラブ新人賞. It was recognized in a literary award context and is presented as a work centered on the concerns suggested by its title.

Recognized by the 日本詩人クラブ新人賞, 細胞律 draws readers in through the impression created by its title.

93 pages
日本詩人クラブ新人賞細胞律literature
草野信子 くさの のぶこ award

A poetry collection that layers images of the battlefield with the texture of everyday life.

A poetry collection that layers images of the battlefield with the texture of everyday life.

work overview
Keiko Shimizu しみず けいこ award

あびてあびて is a prize-recognized work that draws readers through its central subject, characters, and the texture of its period or setting.

あびてあびて carries the distinctive qualities that made it a prize-recognized work.

award-winning literaturehuman experiencesociety and time
柴田三吉 しばた さんきち award

さかさの木 by 柴田三吉 is a work recognized by japan-poets-club-newcomer-award. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.

An introduction to さかさの木 by 柴田三吉 in its award context.

award-winning workliterary prizeさかさの木
北岡淳子 きたおか じゅんこ award

生姜湯 is a work of poetry by 北岡淳子. It was honored by the 日本詩人クラブ新人賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 北岡淳子's work.

a work of poetryaward-winning work
江島その美 えじま そのみ award

Mizu no Zanzou is a modern Japanese poetry collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

Mizu no Zanzou is a modern Japanese poetry collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

身体母性
Fujio Nakamura なかむら ふじお award

Mets is a poetry collection by Fujio Nakamura whose sports-inflected title brings in urban speed and bodily sensation. It turns everyday scenes into poetic rhythm and drew attention as a young voice in contemporary poetry.

A poetry collection that sets urban and bodily rhythms in motion under a title with the sound of sport.

95 pages
modern poetrycitybodily sensationsport