The "Place for Poetry" Award named after Haim Guri for Hebrew Poetry 2022 will be awarded to the poets Yonit Naaman and Amos Noy | Israel Today

The poet Yonit Naaman and the poet Amos Noy are the winners of the "Place for Poetry" prize named after Haim Guri for Hebrew poetry 2022. This is the second year in which the prize is awarded

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The prize is NIS 30,000 and will be divided between the winners.

The members of the award committee are Dr. Gilad Meiri (Chairman), Dr. Nana Ariel, Dr. Omri Herzog, Yael Guri and Ran Yagil.

The Guri Prize will be awarded at the grand opening event of "Meter by Meter", the Jerusalem Poetry Festival, which will take place on Tuesday, July 12 ,22.

Amos Noy // Photo: Bar Gordon,

The judges' reasoning: "Amos Noy wins the Guri Prize for his second book of poems. One magician sawed me and went to another place (New World 2021).

"His poetry has a distinct, cohesive and wild voice at the same time, stemming from carnival poetics that combines modernism and folklore, between Segev and popular culture, between melancholy lyricism and humor. Poetry has momentum and breadth that stems from the performative and rhetorical ability of several storytellers, comedian and researcher (Noy is a doctor of folklore and folk culture).

"The diverse positions of the speaker give a flexible tone, which is essential for polyphony and in any case for plurality of opinions - including self-criticism delivered in an auto-parodic way. This poetic pattern echoes the liberal ethos of the spirit of time,

"This book, like his first book, places folklore at the center, as an object of education and reference, and not as a remnant of high culture. It is a troubadour protest done casually, playfully and elaborately hence its political power and literary charm. For poetry named after Haim Guri for the year 2022.

Yonit Naaman wins the Guri Prize for her second book of poems If a Heart Falls (Locus 2018).

Her poems are characterized by wit and wisdom and not sophistication, as well as the lack of humor in Israeli poetry that is serious in explanation.

In her prominent and good poems in the book, such as "As if Gauguin came to visit" or "Embryos of the Dead", she manages to touch and demonstrate a wide poetic and emotional range.

"Even when describing pain, she maintains freshness, healthy impudence, frenzy and liveliness that do not respond to any framework or regime. Naaman is at her best when she writes free poetry. Naaman has her own distinct voice. Ravikovic, Meir Wieseltir, Natan Zach and world literature, and his work on major political questions that have occupied literature in recent years, such as the politics of identities, the extremism of Jewish-Arab relations, and gender, is characterized by an ironic wink that emphasizes its complexity.

"Her poems do not automatically adopt poetic or political norms, but hold ad hoc negotiations with them, soberly and out of a multiplicity of points of view. For this reason, we are honored to award Yonit Naaman the Haim Guri Poetry Place Award for 2022.

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