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Tomita Saika Award とみたさいかしょう

Edition 30 (2019)

Contemporary poetryPoetry collection

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田中武 たなか たけし award

A poetry collection by Takeshi Tanaka, associated with a Niigata poetry circle. As the poet himself describes the pieces as half-crystalline or half-formed, the book foregrounds a long engagement with lived experience and poetic language rather than polished hardness.

Words half-crystallized and half-unripe turn into poetry while carrying the time of daily life.

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