Saturday 12th May 2012
Symposium venue: Henry Wellcome Lecture Theatre,
Wellcome Collection, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
2012 Hippocrates Awards for poetry and medicine will be announced at the 12 May Symposium See Awards Programme below
Registration is now open for the Symposium and for the Hippocrates Awards
Call for papers
Submissions are welcome for oral or poster presentation during the Symposium.
Email the Symposium Office to express interest in submitting a Symposium Abstract.
Oral abstract deadline - 12midnight GMT - 12th February 2012
Poster abstract deadline - 12midnight GMT - 31st March 2012
Key themes will include:
history of interactions between medicine, health and poetry; impact of health and disease on the writings of the professional poet; poetry as therapy; the nature of the body, and anatomy; the history, evolution, current and future state of medical science; the nature and experience of tests; use of poetry in health professional training, the experience of doctors, nurses and other staff in hospitals and in the community; the experience of patients, families, friends and carers in these situations; the experiences of acute and long-term illness and dying, of birth, of cure and convalescence; the patient journey; the nature and experience of treatment with herbs, chemicals and devices used in medicine.
The Symposium will end with awards for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
2012 Symposium Faculty includes:
Rod Flower FRS (2012 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel, Dean Gianakos (Lynchburg, Virginia, USA), Sorcha Gunne (Warwick), Marilyn Hacker (Poet and Critic, New York & Paris; 2012 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel), Michael Hulse (Writing Programme, Warwick), Edward Picot (Kent), Robert Randolph (Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, USA), Jo Shapcott (Poet, Royal Holloway College, London), Donald Singer (Warwick Medical School), Eleni Theocharous MEP (Poet and Paediatric Surgeon, Cyprus), John Riddington Young (William Harvey in poetry - ENT Surgeon, West Barton, Bideford).
2012 Symposium Programme
9.30
Registration
10.00
Introduction: Themes in the Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Awards
Donald Singer and Michael Hulse, University of Warwick
10.15 HISTORY AND INSPIRATION IN POETRY
Talks and Round Table discussion
11.10 ATTENDED POSTERS AND COFFEE
11.30 MEDICAL THEMES IN POETRY
Talks and Round Table discussion
12.50 LUNCH AND POSTERS
13.50 POETRY READING: Jo Shapcott
14.20 POETRY IN THERAPY AND EDUCATION
Talks and Round Table discussion
16.00 TEA, POSTERS AND BOOK-SIGNING
16.30 POETRY READING: Marilyn Hacker
16.50 HIPPOCRATES PRIZE AWARDS
Remarks on behalf of the Judges: Martha Kearney
NHS awards: Professor Rod Flower FRS
Open awards: Marilyn Hacker
17.30 Readings from the winning poems
18.00
Reception for speakers, delegates and Hippocrates Prize winners
19.30 CLOSE
Please note that the programme may be subject to change
The 2011 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is supported by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.
To express interest in supporting the 2011 Symposium, contact the Symposium organizers.
2011 Symposium Faculty
Steve Field CBE ((2011 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel, Chairman of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners, London), Sandy Goldbeck-Wood (Cambridge), Sorcha Gunne (HIV/AIDS and poetry, Warwick), Marilyn Hacker (Poet and Critic, New York & Paris), Fiona Hamilton (Chair, Lapidus), Michael Hulse (Writing Programme, Warwick), Mark Lawson ((2011 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel - Broadcaster and Writer, Northampton) Gwyneth Lewis (2011 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel - Former Welsh National Poet, Cardiff), Renee Liang (New Zealand), Timothy Metcalfe (Australia), Simon Opher (Poetry and Dementia - Dursley), Femi Oyebode (Psychiatry and Poetry, University of Birmingham), Donald Singer (Warwick Medical School), Sue Spencer (Poetry in Nurse Education - Newcastle), Kelley Swain (London), John Riddington Young (Syphilis in poetry - ENT Surgeon, West Barton, Bideford).
2011 Symposium Programme
8.30 Registration
9.00
Introduction: Themes in the Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Awards
Donald Singer and Michael Hulse, University of Warwick
HISTORY AND INSPIRATION IN POETRY
9.15
Jealous Mistress: Doctors as Poets
Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
ABSTRACT
9.35
Venus Heart: La Specola's Waxworks in Verse
Kelley Swain, Cambridge
ABSTRACT
10.55
On Learning from the Patient
Fiona Hamilton, Chair of Lapidus, Bristol
ABSTRACT
Round Table Discussion
ATTENDED POSTERS AND COFFEE
MEDICAL THEMES IN POETRY
11.00
Down with the Nose, Down with it Flat - References to ENT
Syphilitic Disease in 16th Century Poetry
John Riddington Young, Devon
ABSTRACT
11.20
Sex in Poetry
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Cambridge
ABSTRACT
11.40
'The Healing Power of Words: Community and Communitas in
Women's poetry about HIV / AIDS from Southern Africa'
Sorche Gunne, University of Warwick
ABSTRACT
12.00
Round Table Discussion
12.20
LUNCH AND POSTERS
13.20
POETRY READING: Marilyn Hacker, New York
POETRY IN THERAPY AND EDUCATION
13.50
In our own Words: Poetry and Young People's Health
Renee Liang, Auckland, New Zealand
ABSTRACT
14.10
Using Poetry in Dementia
Simon Opher and Karen Hayes, Cheltenham
ABSTRACT
14.30
Reclaiming the art of nursing: how reading and writing poetry might redress
an imbalance within the development of nursing practice
Sue Spencer, Newcastle
ABSTRACT
14.50
Poems in Public on the Frontier
Rogan Wolf, London
ABSTRACT
15.10
Round Table Discussion
15.35
TEA, POSTERS AND BOOK-SIGNING
16.00
Poetry reading: Gwyneth Lewis, Cardiff
HIPPOCRATES PRIZE AWARDS
16.20
Remarks on behalf of the Judges: Mark Lawson
NHS awards: Professor Steve Field CBE
Open awards: Gwyneth Lewis
16.45
Readings from the 6 winning poems
17.15
Reception for speakers, delegates and Hippocrates Prize winners
18.00
CLOSE
Please note that the programme may be subject to minor changes on the day
The 2011 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is supported by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.
To express interest in supporting the 2011 Symposium, contact the Symposium organizers.
2010 Symposium contributors
Dannie Abse, London; Alan Beattie, Lancaster; Christina Britzolakis, Warwick; Mary Crowder, Bristol; Giskin Day, Imperial College, London; Lise Day, Cape Town, South Africa; Rose Flint, Corsley; William Foster, Gloucester; Wendy French, London; Sandy Goldbeck-Wood; Peter
Goldsworthy Poet and medical practitioner, Australia ; Sam Guglani, Cheltenham; Michael Hulse, Editor, The Warwick Review; Kevin Ilsley, Bromyard; Sarah Kelly; Sir Bruce Keogh, London; John Livingston, Leeds; Cheryl Moskowitz, London; James Naughtie, London; Stephanie Norgate, Midhurst, West Sussex; Simon Opher, Dursley ; Brenda Read-Brown, Tewkesbury; Susan Reynolds, British Library, London; Donald Singer, Warwick; Can Sonmez, Warwick; Stephen Wilson, Oxford; John Riddington Young, Sheffield
Support for the 2010 Symposium
2010 Programme
Saturday 10th April, 2010
Venue: University of
Warwick Arts Centre Conference Room, Coventry CV4 7AL
How to get to the Warwick Arts Centre by car or public transport
Warwick Arts Centre is Building 61 on University of Warwick Campus Map
8.30am Registration
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9.00 Introduction to Poetry and Medicine
Prof. Donald Singer, Michael Hulse, Warwick
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9.20 A. D. Hope’s anatomy lesson
Michael Hulse, Warwick
9.45 William Carlos Williams: GP and poet
Christina Britzolakis, Warwick
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10.10 The death of Hamlet’s father
John Riddington Young, Sheffield
10.30 Jiři Wolker: poetry and pathology
Susan Reynolds, British Library, London
10.50 Hospital geography: incarnations of the poet-patient
Can Sönmez, Warwick
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11.10 Attended Posters and Coffee, with John Riddington Young book-signing
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11.30 Metaphors of movement: poetry and mental health
Alan Beattie, Lancaster
11.50 The Elves and the Poem-maker
Stephen Wilson, Oxford
12.10 State of emergency
Lise Day, Cape Town and Giskin Day, Imperial College, London
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12.30 Lunch
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13.45 Keynote address - The Physiology of Literature
Peter Goldsworthy, Australia
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14.15 The Apollo Project: Poetry in Cheltenham Hospital Oncology Unit
Brenda Read-Brown, Tewkesbury and Sam Guglani, Cheltenham
14.35 Art and healing
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood,
14.55 Matters of the heart
Wendy French and Cheryl Moskowitz, London
15.15 The well-versed medical student
Giskin Day, Imperial College, London
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15.35 Attended Posters and Tea, with Dannie Abse book-signing
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16.00 Poetry reading: Dannie Abse:
Hippocrates Prize
16.20 Judges’ remarks: James Naughtie
16.35 Presentation
NHS awards: Sir Bruce Keogh
Open awards: Dannie Abse
Readings from the top 6 winning poems
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17.00 Wine reception for speakers, delegates and Hippocrates Prize winners
18.00 Close
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2010 Hippocrates Prize
The judges of this new pair of national and international medical poetry awards were:
- broadcaster, journalist and writer
James
Naughtie
- NHS Medical Director Professor Sir
Bruce
Keogh
- poet and doctor
Dannie
Abse
Short-listing for the 2010 Hippocrates Prize awards took place in London 10th March 2010.
Short-listed and the top 20 commended entries in the NHS-related and Open categories were announced on the Hippocrates Proze Website on Thursday 18th March 2010.
The 2010 Hippocrates Prize awards were announced at the end of the above Symposium on Poetry and Medicine on Saturday 10th April 2010.
There was a £15,000 award fund for the 2010 Hippocrates Prize, given in an ‘open’ category which anyone could enter and in an ‘NHS’ category open to National Health Service employees and health students. The first prize for the winning poem in each category was £5,000.
The 2010 Hippocrates Prize was organised by a joint team from the University of Warwick’s Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the University’s Medical School.
Useful links
Medicine and Poetry. EP Scarlett. CAMJ. 1937;36:73–79.
History of Poetry as Therapy
Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine
Journal of Poetry Therapy
Journal of the American Medical Association: Poetry and Medicine
Poetry and Healthcare resources
Shelley - Hymn of Apollo:
‘All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine, is mine’
Stanford: Poetry in Medicine
The Poetry Kit
The Poetry Society
The Poetry Library
Poetry Foundation
Poetry International
