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Edition 23 (2021)

Poetry collectionPoetry criticism book

Winners

4 people
冨岡悦子 とみおか えつこ award

A 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.

71 pages
poetry collectionviolenceeveryday lifememorysociety
青木由弥子 あおき ゆみこ special award

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.

101 pages
poetry collectionabsenceaddressmemoryresonance
颯木あやこ さつき あやこ special award

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.

112 pages
prayerpainlovebodily sensationpoetry collection
九里順子 くり じゅんこ special encouragement award

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.

350 pages
Kinoshita Yujipoetry criticismhaikumodern poetryHiroshima