New Haiku Poets Federation Prize - Haiku Works Division
Edition 38 (2010)
Winners
3 peopleA haiku collection by Yoshitaka Gondo, condensing the feel of daily life and a social gaze into hard-edged seasonal words and brief poetic form.
The feel of daily life and a gaze toward the times meet within brief haiku.
A haiku collection by Osamu Watanabe. Against the antiwar awareness suggested by its title, it connects everyday scenes with responses to society in the short breath of haiku.
The thought of antiwar is quietly placed between daily scenery and words.
A haiku collection by Takuji Minami. Beginning from the seasonal feeling of green wheat, it depicts nature, labor, and the time of daily living in concise modern haiku language.
In the season of greening wheat, the time of living and labor comes into view.