A new annual competition for a poem on a medical subject
The Hippocrates Prize is offered in two categories: an ‘open’ category which anyone can enter, and an ‘NHS’ category open to National Health Service-related employees and health students. The top 20 commended entries in each category will receive an award of £50. Awards will be announced and presented by the judges James Naughtie, Sir Bruce Keogh and Dannie Abse on Saturday 10th April 2010 at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at Warwick Arts Centre for which members of the public are welcome to register.
Commendations were awarded to entrants from the Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, USA and Wales.
Two short-listed poets were also commended for separate entries:
‘Beautiful’ by Alex Josephy from London
‘On smoking’ by Siân Hughes from Banbury
Five poets were commended twice for:
'Human Touch' and 'Flood ...' by Sue Butler, Hertfordshire
'Why did you become a doctor
' and 'The Family Doctor' by Miles Burrows, Cambridge
'Patriotic for the past' and
'Tiptoe' by Mary Courtney, Coventry
'Benign' and 'In the dissecting room' by Valerie
Laws, Northumberland
'Lightning' and 'Therapy' by Marlo Bester-Sproul, North Carolina
for Symposium and Awards presentations on Saturday 10th April 2010 at International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine
at Warwick Arts Centre
