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The 2011 Hippocrates Prize is supported by:
The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
Annual international award for a poem on a medical subject
£15,000 award fund
The 2012 judging panel
Mark Lawson - writer and broadcaster
Gwyneth Lewis - Wales’ first National Poet.
Professor Steve Field CBE - Chairman of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2007-2010.
See 2011 prize press release for comments by poet Clare Pollard on aspiring young poets.
Winners announced for 2011 Hippocrates Prize
Michael Henry, Cheryl Moskowitz and Sandy Goldbeck-Wood were the Open International Winners; NHS Winners - Paula Cunningham, Wendy French and Johanna Emeney for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine - one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In the Open section, of the 20 commended poems, 1 each were from Canada and New Zealand, and 7 from the USA.
Broadcaster and writer Mark Lawson, poet Gwyneth Lewis and leading GP Professor Steve Field, chairman of the National Inclusion Health Board, announced the awards at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the University of Warwick on May 7th.
The prize, which has a £15,000 award fund, is split into two strands – an open category and an NHS category with both carrying a first prize of £5,000. This year’s competition attracted around 1500 entries from 23 countries across the globe, with professional poets and amateurs submitting poems on a medical theme.
Weblinks about the awards:
article on the awardsInterested in research on poetry and medicine?
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