www.hippocrates-poetry.org
The 2012 Hippocrates Prize judges
Marilyn Hacker
Poet and critic
Marilyn Hacker's book of poetry Presentation Piece (1974) won the National Book Award. In 2009, she won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
Professor Rod Flower, FRS
Researcher on medicines
Rod Flower is Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology at the WIlliam Harvey Research Institute[21] in London. His main scientific research interests concern inflammation and anti-inflammatory drug mechanisms. He was formerly President of the British Pharmacological Society and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Martha Kearney
Broadcaster and journalist
Martha Kearney is the main presenter for
BBC Radio 4’s lunchtime news programme ‘The World at One’. She previously worked
for Channel 4, presented the BBC’s Woman’s Hour, Today and PM and was political editor
for Newsnight. She has been commended for her national and international reporting,
including for work on child poverty. She has been a judge for the Webb Essay Prize
and the Guardian First Book Award, and has chaired the judging panel for the Orange
Prize for Fiction.
An annual international award for a poem on a medical subject
2012 Awards will be announced in London
on Saturday May 12th 2012, at the
3rd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, to be held at the Wellcome Collection rooms.
