Nejime Shōichi
Writer-in-residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House in November 2018
Nejime Shōichi is a Japanese poet hosted at Historic Joy Kogawa House in partnership with Tasai Artists’ Collective. Nejime collaborated in Vancouver with Japanese poet Soramaru Takayama as part of the Japanese Poets North of the 49th (JPN North of 49) project.
In 1989, he won the Naoki Prize for his poetry collection Kōenji Junjō Shōtengai (高円寺純情商店街, lit. Kōenji Purehearted Shopping District).
In 1997, Nejime Shōichi became the first champion of “Poetry Boxing.” In 2001, he led the NHK (Japanese National Radio) panel discussion “Words of Power, Poems of Power.”
Details of the event are here: http://www.tasai.ca/project/jpn49-2018/
(Photo by Yukiko Onley)
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Japanese Poets North of the 49th with The Tasai Collective
On the evening of Friday, October 26, 2018, at the Annex Theatre on Seymour Street, Vancouver-based Japanese poet Soramaru Takayama presented his sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, always engaging poetry through a blend of spoken word and theatre movement. Alongside...