On November 15, 2021, the "Sixth China Long Poetry Award" was announced, and Shi Shiran won the "Best New Talent Award" with "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai". Shi Shiran's award attracted attention because he could not search for any news about the poem "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai". What does this winning work look like? Nobody knows, but it's the award.
On December 16, 2021, a month after the announcement of the award results, "Han Poetry Promotion" finally launched the poem "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai", and it was also specially noted that the winning works of the sixth "China Long Poetry Award" were awarded. However, in this work, the 6th and 17th subsections are missing, saying that they were "selected by the journal" and were not convenient to display.
On January 8, 2022, Shi Shiran's new poetry collection "Invisible Flight", published by China Yanshi Publishing House, naturally includes the award-winning work "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai". However, in this collection of poems, "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai" is no longer a long poem, but a group of poems. Is it possible that Shi Shiran wrote both long poems and groups of poems, all titled "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai"? It is estimated that it is unlikely, otherwise yang Zonghai's "spring day" will have too great an impact on Shi Shiran.
So the question is, what is the difference between "long poems" and "group poems"? A "group poem" is a collection of poems with the same or similar theme, consisting of multiple poems. And the "long poem," no matter how long it is, how many stanzas it has, is a poem. For example, "group poems" are like a forest, while "long poems" are a long tree.
Groups of poems can be put together or taken apart individually, like cutting down a tree in the middle, which is no problem. But the long poem is different, just a tree, if you want to cut it down, cut it down completely. Of course, it can be divided into several sections, but it can no longer be called a tree, only wood.
Therefore, the "group poems" can take some from them and form poems independently. And "long poems" are either displayed in its entirety or not displayed and cannot be separated. If we go back and look at the long poem "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai" in the "Promotion of Han Poetry", it is obviously inappropriate to "take away" in the two subsections 6 and 17.
This can only show that the "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai" in the "Promotion of Chinese Poetry" is actually a "group poem" rather than a "long poem". However, the "group poem" won the "Chinese Long Poetry Award", which was a bit of a joke and almost became an "international joke". The point is that such an "international joke", which is actually named "China Long Poetry Award", was jointly created by many "famous poets".
Don't these "famous poets" know the difference between "group poems" and "long poems"? Is it so unprofessional? If you look at the judges, which one is not "famous"? So, the joke is really a bit big. I just can't understand, where is Shi Shiran's "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai"? Won an award before the work was released, and won the prize as a long poem?
If it is really a "masterpiece", it is also OK, after all, it is too well written. But this "group" or this "first" "Spring Day, Yang Zonghai" is nothing special, and it is not a work that must be awarded. In fact, how many people will read such poems now? Maybe none of the judges have read it, otherwise how could they have treated "group poems" as "long poems"? I'm sorry for the word "famous" in their name?
How many of the current poetry "awards" are "jokes"? Shi Shiran's award may not be accidental. If it is "accidental", then the judges will certainly be surprised. It is precisely because they have seen more and are not strange that the judges of the "famous poets" have become "accustomed".
The idiom has "unmarried first pregnant", and the poetry world has "unseen first prize". The idiom "refers to deer as horses", Zhao Gao had to say that deer were horses, and others had to follow suit. Now the poetry world has "finger group is long" and "refers to the forest as wood", and we can only echo it. "Group poems" become "long poems", as long as they are happy. As for the face of the poetry world, who cares?