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Takami Jun Award たかみじゅんしょう

Edition 21 (1991)

Poetry

Winners

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Shell Hunting is a poetry collection by Kiyomi Konagaya. Around what has been lost, what remains as a husk, and bodily sensation, it layers everyday texture with an unsettling inner world.

The act of gathering husks recalls lost time and bodily memory.

113 pages
modern poetrylossbodily sensationeveryday life
Tsuji Yukio award

In the Margins of Verlaine is a poetry collection by Yukio Tsuji. In a plain voice that holds humor and pain together, it depicts solitude and lyric feeling that can only be written in the margins.

Beside Verlaine's margins, a solitary lyricism quietly begins to move.

80 pages
modern poetrylyricismVerlainesolitude