The deadline for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize is 31st Jan 2013, with awards to be announced at the Wellcome Collection in London on 18th May, 2013.
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 judging panel for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize is now
complete: Jo Shapcott, winner of the 2011 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Theodore Dalrymple, doctor
and writer, and Roger Highfield, science writer and Executive for the Science
Museums Group.
Jo Shapcott was
born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating
the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000).
She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers'
Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the
National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was
published in 2001. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in
2010 and won the 2011 Costa Book Award. She was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal
for Poetry in December 2011. Jo Shapcott teaches creative writing at Royal
Holloway, University of London.
Theodore Dalrymple is
the pen name for Dr Anthony Daniels, who has worked as a doctor in Sub-Saharan
Africa, the Gilbert Islands, London and Birmingham, most recently as a
psychiatrist and prison doctor. His writing has appeared regularly in the press
and in medical publications, including the British Medical Journal, the Times,
Telegraph, Observer and the Spectator. His most recent book is The
Pleasure of Thinking.
Roger Highfield is
the Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group. He was born in
Wales, raised in north London and became the first person to bounce a neutron
off a soap bubble. He was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two
decades and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. His most recent
book, with Martin Nowak is Supercooperators:
Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour.
