The 2013 Hippocrates Prize for
poetry & medicine was launched on 12th July at the Lichfield
Festival.
Entries
are now open for the 2013
Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems
in English of up to 50 lines text, excluding title and line spacing.
Awards will be presented at an international symposium for poetry and medicine
to be held on Saturday 18th May, 2013 at the Wellcome Collection rooms in London.
The Hippocrates Awards
With a 1st prize for
the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates prize is one of
the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In its first 3
years, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted around 4000 entries from 44
countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. Awards
are in an Open category, which anyone in the world may enter, and an NHS
category, which is open to UK National Health Service employees, health
students and those working in professional organisations involved in education
and training of NHS students and staff. Co-organizers are medical professor
Donald Singer and poet and translator Michael Hulse.
The Hippocrates
poetry and medicine initiative received the Award for Excellence and
Innovation in the Arts in the 2011
Times Higher Education awards. This award aims to recognise the
collaborative and interdisciplinary work that is taking place in universities
to promote the arts. Entries were open to teams and all higher education
institutions in the UK. Major support for the Hippocrates initiative has come
from the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine,
with additional support from the Wellcome
Trust, the Cardiovascular Research Trust, Heads, Teachers and Industry and the
University Warwick's Institute
of Advanced Study.
The judges for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize are Jo Shapcott, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, science writer and Science Museum Group Executuve Roger Highfield and doctor and writer Theodore Dalrymple.
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| 2013 Hippocrates Prize judges: Roger Highfield, Jo Shapcott and Theodore Dalrymple |
See also
- International
Hippocrates Research Forum for poetry and medicine. This includes poets,
academics and health professionals in the UK, Europe and the USA.
