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Oguma Hideo Award おぐまひでおしょう

Edition 11 (1978)

PoetryLiterature

Winners

2 people
うちだ優 うちだ ゆう award

As the title suggests, this poetry collection follows the feeling of living between settlement and wandering. The unease of staying in a place without fully taking root appears in tense, compressed lines.

A body in a temporary dwelling looks at the gap between place and memory.

120 pages
poetrydriftingmemory of place
Tomoko Fukunaka ふくなか みやこ award

A collected volume of Miyako Fukunaka’s poetry, bringing together bodily perception, everyday life, and postwar lyricism. It gives language to personal history and the pain of an era.

One poet’s voice resounds across daily life and the wounds of the age.

300 pages
collected poemswomen’s poetrypostwar poetry