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.
- 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.htmlPast Winners
『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.
"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.
A poetry collection by Yayoi Noguchi that gently captures the breath of everyday life.
Looking up at the sky becomes poetry itself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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A concise profile of 錦繍植物園 by 中島真悠子, including award and bibliographic context.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.