Ono Tozaburo Award おのとおざぶろうしょう
Edition 23 (2021)
Winners
4 peopleA poetry collection that moves back and forth across the boundary between everyday life and events, looking again at voices exposed to violence. It does not simplify hope and sorrow, but turns the pain of the time directly into poetic tension.
It reconsiders the everyday world around violence through poetry.
A poetry collection built around an address to 'you,' tracing missing people and vanished traces. Read as a single flowing sequence of 25 poems, it leaves a strong sense of sinking quietly into memory.
It traces the presence of absence through a gentle act of address.
A fourth poetry collection that starts from prayer and pain and turns language toward love and abundance. It captures moments when poetry lifts what exceeds bodily sensation.
Pain changes into prayer and then into love.
A critical study that reads Kinoshita Yuji's poetry and haiku collections chapter by chapter and sketches the full shape of his work. It traces his poetic life through works such as 'Inaka no Shokutaku', 'Banka', and 'Jido Shishu'.
It follows Kinoshita Yuji, who lived without letting go of poetry or haiku.