Poet and doctor Dannie Abse awarded Honorary Fellowship by Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

Dannie Abse has been made an Honorary Fellow by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, announced at the FPM's 3rd Annual Summer Event on 24th June, 2013.

FPM President Donald Singer with new Hon. FPM Fellow Dannie Abse

His book of poetry, Running Late received the Roland Mathais Prize in 2007. The Presence was the winner of the prestigious Wales Book of the Year award for 2008. In 2009 Abse brought out a volume of collected poetry. In the same year, he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Abse was a judge for the inaugural 2010 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.

He was awarded a CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to poetry and literature. 
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Dannie Abse at the FPM for the 2010 Hippocrates Prize judging

Origins of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Entries for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize are now closed.

Co-organized with poet and translator Michael Hulse and new member of the team post-doctoral humanities researcher Sorcha Gunne, the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine has been launched and plans are underway for the associated 3rd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, to be held at the Wellcome Collection rooms in London on Saturday May 12th 2012, when the 2012 awards will be presented.  There is already strong international interest from potential contributors to the Symposium programme.

See the 2010 blog to find out more about the origins of this major prize, one of the best funded anywhere in the world for a single original poem, the first awards symposium in 2010, and comments from the first NHS and international winners, and from the inaugural judges, broadcaster and writer James Naughtie, doctor and poet Dannie Abse, and Medical Director of the NHS Sir Bruce Keogh.