A new annual competition for a poem on a medical subject
Top 6 short-list for the
2011 Hippocrates Prize
hort list
Short list for Open Awards
Johanna Emeney - Radiologist's report One of New Zealand's rising poetry stars, Cambridge
Graduate Johanna's first collection 'Apple & Tree' will be published in July 2011
by Cape Catley Ltd. Johanna's work has appeared in the UK in The Guardian, and in
Metro, North & South, Takahe and other New Zealand publications. Jo Emeney is an
English teacher who lives on Auckland's North Shore. She has been back home in New
Zealand for four years, having spent fourteen years in England.
Michael Henry - The
Patella Hammer Born in Liverpool in 1942, the son of an orthopaedic surgeon,Michael
Henry grew up in Cheltenham where he now lives. He read Modern Languages at Oxford.
In his twenties he emigrated to teach in Canada and had his first poems published
there, and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Since returning to England
he’s had five collections published, four with Enitharmon Press. Footnote to History
(2001) is a poetic biography of his uncle who was a prisoner-of-war. His latest publication,
After the Dancing Dogs (2008), is about journeys - real, imaginary and personal.
The book he is currently working on concerns family and identity.
Cheryl Moskowitz - Correspondence with the Care Home Cheryl Moskowitz was born in Chicago and has lived in London since the age of 11. Formerly an actor and playwright she co-founded the organization LAPIDUS (Literary Arts in Personal Development) in 1996 and has trained in dramatherapy and psychodynamic counseling. She taught on the Creative Writing and Personal Development MA at Sussex University for fourteen years and currently facilitates writing projects in various areas of the community including schools, prisons and with the homeless. Her novel Wyoming Trail (Granta) was published in 1998 and her poetry collection for children, Can It Be About Me, (Circle Time Press) in 2009.
Short list for NHS Awards
Paula Cunningham - The Chief Radiographer Considers Paula Cunningham was born in
Omagh Co Tyrone in 1963 and has lived in Belfast for much of her adult life. She
works part-time as a dentist. Paula’s poems have been widely anthologised in Ireland
and beyond. Her poetry chapbook, 'A Dog Called Chance' was published by Smith Doorstop
Books in 1999. Generous selections occur in Bloodaxe's 'The New Irish Poets' and
Lagan's 'Magnetic North.' She has also published short fiction, and written for radio
and stage. Her book, A Dog Called Chance, was published by Smith Doorstop in 1999.
She has also written plays for Tinderbox and BBC Radio 4, and a short story appeared
in Faber’s Best New Irish Short Stories 2004-5.
Wendy French - The Doctor's Wife Wendy French promotes writing in healthcare, educational
and community settings currently working on two projects with people who have suffered
from strokes or brain damage. She is past head of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital
School. She co- convenes the London group of Lapidus. Wendy won the NHS section of
the Hippocrates Poetry & Medicine prize in April 2010. The winning poem, ‘it's about
a man’, is about her father, one of the first doctors to work in the NHS in 1947.
Wendy French’s new collection, surely you know this, was published by tall lighthouse
in 2009. Wendy’s other collection Splintering the Dark and 3 co-edited books of poetry
written by young people in hospital are all published by Rockingham.
Dr. Sandy Goldbeck-Wood - Inappropriate ADH Dr. Sandy Goldbeck-Wood is a doctor in gynaecology and psychosexual medicine, and a medical editor. She was commended for her NHS entry in the 2010 Hippocrates Prize.
The first prize for the winning poem in each category is £5,000, with second and third prizes of £1,000 and £500. Awards will be announced and presented by the judges BBC broadcaster Mark Lawson, former Welsh National Poet Gwyneth Lewis and leading GP Professor Steve Field on Saturday 7th May 2011 at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at Warwick Arts Centre for which members of the public are welcome to register.
2011 Commendations by our judging panel included 20 NHS-related entrants and 20 Open entrants. Nine of the 20 commended Open entrants were from overseas: 1 each from Canada and New Zealand and 7 from the USA..
