Japan Poetry, Tanka and Haiku Grand Prize にほんしかくくたいしょう
Edition 8 (2012)
Winners
3 peopleA poetry collection by Hiroaki Shimokawa. As the title Requiem suggests, it centers on prayer and memory for what has been lost, facing the dead and wounded time through restrained language.
A quiet book of poems offered to the dead and to memory.
A tanka collection by Chi Obikawa. Centered on the tactile and domestic associations evoked by the title The Scent of Quince, it preserves changes in everyday time, memory, and feeling in the form of tanka.
A tanka collection that entrusts domestic scent and memory to the fragrance of quince.
A haiku collection by Soro Ohno. According to the author profile in the later collection Koseki, this earlier collection was issued alongside the haiku magazine Shunrei, and can be placed among works that view nature, daily life, and memories of war with a direct gaze.
A haiku collection that marks a life in haiku through plain language.