The Hippocrates Book of the Heart edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer
ISBN 978-0-9935911-1-2 UK: £12 Ireland: €15 US: $18 CAN: $24 AUS: $24 NZ: $30
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The Canadian launch of the book was held at Makom in Toronto on Thursday 16th November. The programme included readings by Canadian poets Alisha Kaplan, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. There was also a lively discussion panel on "More poetry: just what doctors and the public need?" In addition to the above poets the panel was joined by poet and psychotherapist Ronna and poet and psychiatrist Ron Charach, with a co-chairs: Alisha Kaplan and Donald Singer.
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Ronna Bloom is the author of 5 collections of poetry including The More (Pedlar Press, 2017). Her poems have been translated into Spanish and Bengali, recorded by the CNIB, and used in films, by architects, in education and health care. Her work appears in "Poetry is Public" and in the Toronto Public Library Poetry Map. She is currently Poet in Community at the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence in the Sinai Health System in Toronto. In these roles she offers students, health care professionals, patients and visitors opportunities to articulate their experiences through reflective writing and poetry. A meditator and psychotherapist, she lives in Toronto.
Roo Borson's work has received the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award. Her most recent book of poetry is Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar (2017), published by McClelland and Stewart/Penguin Random House. With Kim Maltman, she writes under the pen name Baziju, whose first book, Box Kite, was published in 2016 by House of Anansi Press.
Ron Charach is a poet, essayist, novelist and practicing psychiatrist. Born in Winnipeg, he has lived in Toronto since 1980 with his wife Alice, who is also a psychiatrist and researcher. His medically related poems are featured in two world anthologies of physician poetry published by the University of Iowa Press, Blood & Bone and Primary Care. His most recent books of poetry are Forgetting the Holocaust and Prosopagnosia, the latter of which was published by Toronto’s Tightrope Books. His poetry draws from the twin streams of literature and the healing arts.
Alisha Kaplan: The daughter of a printmaker and a psychiatrist, Alisha is very interested in the convergence of art and medicine, and the healing possibilities of poetry. She is a Torontonian poet, an editor for Narrative Magazine, and the winner of the 2017 Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine. She taught creative writing at New York University, where she received an MFA in Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Fence, DIAGRAM, Carousel, PRISM, The New Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Kim Maltman is a poet and theoretical particle physicist who teaches mathematics at York University. A past winner of the CBC Prize for Poetry, he has published five solo collections of poetry and three collaborative books, including Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, written under the pen name Pain Not Bread and published by Brick Books.
Born in Toronto, Kenneth Sherman is the author of three books of prose and ten books of poetry. His most recent publications are Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer and the poetry collection Jogging with the Great Ray Charles.
Donald Singer and Michael Hulse co-founded the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine in 2009. Singer is a clinical pharmacologist who has published over 200 articles, chapters and books on medicines, on cardiovascular research, prevention and treatment, and public understanding of health. He is an editor and contributor to The Hippocrates Book of the Heart (Hippocrates Press, 2017). He co-authors the prescribing safety guide Pocket Prescriber (Taylor & Francis) now in its 8th edition since 2004. He is President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. He is also on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
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| Art installation by Rochelle Rubinstein and Alisha Kaplan |
This book, made
possible by the generous
support of the Cardiovascular Research Trust, brings
together eighty contemporary
poets of the English-speaking world and a dozen
medical experts from around the
globe to offer their perspectives on the heart.
Since
ancient times, the
heart has been understood as
the seat of the emotions, of the will, even of the
soul. Over time, a fuller
medical understanding of the organ has gradually
evolved too, with Harvey’s
first complete account of the circulation of the
blood and the heart’s role
(1628) and Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s first successful
heart transplant (1968) marking
key moments in a history that has given us a
much better understanding of
our hearts – and how to ensure they stay healthy.
In
compiling this book,
the editors invited poets
around the English-speaking world, both prominent and
less well-known, to contribute
poems about the heart, written from any
perspective, whether clinical
or fanciful, medical or metaphorical. Among the
poets are Griffin Poetry Prize
winners Roo Borson and David Harsent, Forward
Prize winners Sean O’Brien,
Hilary Menos and Nick Mackinnon, former New Zealand
Poets Laureate Elizabeth
Smither and C. K. Stead, former National Poet of Wales
Gwyneth Lewis, and President of
PEN International Jennifer Clement. They are
joined by many other
distinguished and rising poets, including Robert Gray, John
Kinsella, Peter Goldsworthy,
Stephen Edgar and Geoffrey Lehmann from Australia;
Anna Jackson, Jenny Bornholdt
and Chris Price from New Zealand; Grace Schulman,
Rafael Campo, Matthew Thorburn,
Debora Greger and Jeffrey Harrison from the US;
Marilyn Bowering and Kenneth
Sherman from Canada; Justin Quinn, Mary O’Donnell
and John F. Deane from Ireland;
and Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Mimi Khalvati,
Lawrence Sail and Penelope
Shuttle from the UK.
Leading
medical
professionals whose practice
and research has led them to a keen interest in
the health of the heart
contribute information and advice to the book. In
clear, crisp mini-essays they
illuminate the nature of heart disease, the key
risk factors, the history of
cardiac surgery, and the most important steps
every one of us can take in
trying to maintain a healthy heart. Our medical
professionals, based in Russia,
Finland, The Netherlands, France, the UK,
Australia and Hong Kong, agree
in their core message: maintaining a healthy
heart is possible for every one
of us, and is crucial to our overall health and
well-being throughout our
lives.
The
result is that rare
thing, a book that satisfies
the Horatian dictum that writing should both
delight and instruct.
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| Makom, Toronto, 16.11.17: Donald Singer, Ron Charach, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, Ronna Bloom and Alisha Kaplan |
See more about the Toronto launch of the Heart book
Ronna Bloom is the author of 5 collections of poetry including The More (Pedlar Press, 2017). Her poems have been translated into Spanish and Bengali, recorded by the CNIB, and used in films, by architects, in education and health care. Her work appears in "Poetry is Public" and in the Toronto Public Library Poetry Map. She is currently Poet in Community at the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence in the Sinai Health System in Toronto. In these roles she offers students, health care professionals, patients and visitors opportunities to articulate their experiences through reflective writing and poetry. A meditator and psychotherapist, she lives in Toronto.
Roo Borson's work has received the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award. Her most recent book of poetry is Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar (2017), published by McClelland and Stewart/Penguin Random House. With Kim Maltman, she writes under the pen name Baziju, whose first book, Box Kite, was published in 2016 by House of Anansi Press.
Ron Charach is a poet, essayist, novelist and practicing psychiatrist. Born in Winnipeg, he has lived in Toronto since 1980 with his wife Alice, who is also a psychiatrist and researcher. His medically related poems are featured in two world anthologies of physician poetry published by the University of Iowa Press, Blood & Bone and Primary Care. His most recent books of poetry are Forgetting the Holocaust and Prosopagnosia, the latter of which was published by Toronto’s Tightrope Books. His poetry draws from the twin streams of literature and the healing arts.
Alisha Kaplan: The daughter of a printmaker and a psychiatrist, Alisha is very interested in the convergence of art and medicine, and the healing possibilities of poetry. She is a Torontonian poet, an editor for Narrative Magazine, and the winner of the 2017 Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine. She taught creative writing at New York University, where she received an MFA in Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Fence, DIAGRAM, Carousel, PRISM, The New Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Kim Maltman is a poet and theoretical particle physicist who teaches mathematics at York University. A past winner of the CBC Prize for Poetry, he has published five solo collections of poetry and three collaborative books, including Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, written under the pen name Pain Not Bread and published by Brick Books.
Born in Toronto, Kenneth Sherman is the author of three books of prose and ten books of poetry. His most recent publications are Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer and the poetry collection Jogging with the Great Ray Charles.
Donald Singer and Michael Hulse co-founded the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine in 2009. Singer is a clinical pharmacologist who has published over 200 articles, chapters and books on medicines, on cardiovascular research, prevention and treatment, and public understanding of health. He is an editor and contributor to The Hippocrates Book of the Heart (Hippocrates Press, 2017). He co-authors the prescribing safety guide Pocket Prescriber (Taylor & Francis) now in its 8th edition since 2004. He is President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. He is also on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
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