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Edition 31 (2022)

PoetryPoetry collectionFirst collectionSingle poem (written)Single poem (performed)

Winners

3 people
Kim Moore きむ・むーあ Excellence Award

This collection follows emotions that shift between the female body, desire, violence, and intimacy through a numbered sequence. Its frank feminism and sharp self-observation bring the complexity of relationships into view.

It describes the reality of relationships where intimacy and violence intersect, in a voice that does not look away.

64 pages
feminismfemale bodydesireviolencerelationships
Stephanie Sy-Quia すてふぁにー・さい=くいあ Excellence Award

This poetic book traces how the self is formed by stitching together family history, migration, class, and colonialism. Personal memory overlaps with histories that stretch across several countries and languages.

It excavates the outline of the self by tracing multiple origins and histories of movement.

128 pages
family historymigrationcolonialismclassself-formation
Nick Laird にっく・れあーど Excellence Award

This collection meets collapsing social and political systems, loss, and memory with a precise but flexible voice. Around a sequence on a father's death, it opens outward into loneliness, friendship, and the unease of everyday life.

At its center is a sequence on a father's death, surrounded by reflections on loss and the instability of daily life.

96 pages
lossfather's deathpolitics and societylonelinessmemory