'Street-wise' by Wendy French, one of 20 NHS entries commended in the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, has been published in the December issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/6/452.citation
Entries are now open for the 2012 Hippocrates Awards, deadline 31st Jan 2012. With a 1st prize of £5000, this is one of the best funded awards anywhere in the world for a single poem.
 The Hippocrates initiative was named winner of the Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards, announced on 24th November 2011 in London. This award aims to recognise the collaborative and interdisciplinary work that is taking place in universities to promote the arts.
Entries are now open for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English. The deadline for entries is 31st January 2012 and awards will be announced at a symposium in London on 12th May 2012.
The Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative was co-founded by a team from University of Warwick, supported in its first two years by several external organizations interested in medicine and the arts, including the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, the Wellcome Trust, the Cardiovascular Research Trust and Heads, Teachers and Industry.
 BBC broadcaster and journalist Martha Kearney has joined New York poet and critic Marilyn Hacker and medical scientist Professor Rod Flower FRS to complete the judging panel for the 2012 Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and Medicine. In its first 2 years, the Hippocrates Prize attracted around 3000 entries from 31 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. Entries are now open for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English. The deadline for entries is 31st January 2012. 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. Medicine may be interpreted in the broadest sense. Themes for prize entries may include the nature of the body and anatomy; the history, evolution, current and future state of medical science; the nature and experience of tests; the experience of doctors, nurses and other staff in hospitals and in the community. Other topics might include experience of patients, families, friends and carers; experiences of acute and long-term illness, dying, birth, cure and convalescence; the patient journey; the nature and experience of treatment with herbs, chemicals and devices used in medicine. 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.
Sarah Welsh. 3rd June 2011. The winners of the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine were announced last month at the University of Warwick. Founded in 2009, the prize honours the “doctor-poet” and the “patient-poet.” This year’s competition attracted 1500 entries from 23 countries, with professional and amateur poets submitting medical themed poetry. Among the judges were: Steve Field, who heads the National Inclusion Health Board; Gwyneth Lewis, the first national poet of Wales; and Mark Lawson, broadcaster and writer. Judge Mark Lawson said: “I have judged numerous literary prizes, in many genres. This, though, was one of the most fascinating because of the contrasting literary and medical perspectives among both the writers and the judges . . . The winners chosen through this process honour the best qualities of the professions of both poetry and medicine.” Steve Field added: “It is crucially important that healthcare workers understand the emotional journey of their patients ...
 17th May, 2011. I recently attended the 2nd Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, which was held at Warwick Medical School and hosted by Professor Donald Singer and Associate Professor Michael Hulse. During the day, a group of researchers and clinicians from a variety of backgrounds gathered to explore the role of poetry in the discourse of medicine, including renowned poets, Marilyn Hacker and Gwyneth Lewis.
 7th May 2011: At the 2011 Hippocrates Prize Awards on Saturday 7th May, an Anthology was launched of the 46 award winning and commended poems in the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Michael Henry, Cheryl Moskowitz and Sandy Goldbeck-Wood were the Open International Winners; the NHS Winners were Paula Cunningham, Wendy French and Johanna Emeney. In the Open section, of the 20 commended poems, 1 each from Canada and New Zealand, and 7 from the USA.
Copies of the Anthology are available from the Hippocrates and Medicine website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/cpt/poetry/book
7th May 2011. When, in the winter of 2008, the American writer John Updike was diagnosed first with pneumonia and then terminal lung cancer, he documented his condition in a sequence of poems that became the spine of the final book he completed: Endpoint. Although Updike had published poetry throughout a writing life more dominated by novels, short stories and essays, it's revealing that he turned to verse at the end, presumably because of the relative brevity of lyrical composition – there literally wasn't the time to chronicle his decline in a novel – but also because poetry is commonly regarded as the art-form of the heart: the most intimate and personal form of literary expression...
This tradition of the poet-patient is one of the inspirations for the Hippocrates prize, a global competition which offers a £15,000 prize fund for poems on a medical theme. The awards, founded in 2009, also honour the long history of the doctor-poet... Both John Keats(1795-1821) and a British Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges (1844-1930), qualified as doctors but were forced towards authorship by illness. The same was true of the 17th-century Welsh poet Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), whose major work, Silex Scintillans, prompted by the experience of a healer becoming a patient, nicely symbolises the catchment area of the Hippocrates.
The co-organisers of the awards are Donald Singer, professor of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics at Warwick University and his campus colleague Michael Hulse of the Warwick Writing Programme. This managerial double-act reflects the prize's aim to unite the often opposed worlds of humanities and science and the judging panel also mixes artistic and medical backgrounds: this year, Steve Field, who heads the National Inclusion Health Board; Gwyneth Lewis, the first national poet of Wales; and Mark Lawson...
 7th May 2011: The winners of the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine were announced judges broadcaster Mark Lawson, leading GP Professor Steve Field CBE and poet Gwyneth Lewis.at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the University of Warwick on Saturday May 7.
Belfast dentist Paula Cunningham’s poem The Chief Radiographer was judged the best entry in the NHS category of the competition, with the author taking the £5,000 top prize – one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. The Chief Radiographer began as a short story and contains astonishing details from the lives of scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.
In the Open division Michael Henry collected an identical first prize pot with his The Patella Hammer, which refers to Michael’s orthopaedic surgeon father’s love of climbing in the Zugspitze, in Germany, just before the war, and includes images of bringing a lame leg to life. Open runners-up were rising poetry star New Zealander Johanna Emeney, and London-based American playwright Cheryl Moskowitz. Last year’s NHS winner Wendy French was again highly rated, taking the NHS second place, with associate specialist in psychosexual medicine Dr Sandy Goldbeck-Wood in NHS third place. This year’s Hippocrates Prize attracted around1,500 entries from 23 different countries across the globe, with professional and amateur poets submitting pieces on a medical theme.
 2.4.11 For the 2011 symposium and 2011 Hippocrates Prize awards, we draw on national and international perspectives on three major historical and contemporary themes uniting the disciplines of poetry and medicine: medicine as inspiration for the writings of poets; effects of poetic creativity on the experience of illness by patients, their families, friends, and carers; and poetry as therapy. The Symposium includes discussion of early art as an inspiration, the influence of doctor poets, consideration of poetry as an aid to understanding illness, and poetry as passion for creative health professionals. Highlights of the day include poetry readings by New York poet and critic Marilyn Hacker and by 2011 Hippocrates Prize judge Gwyneth Lewis.
The Hippocrates Prize has an international open category eligible for unpublished poems in English by any poet; and separate awards for UK health students and NHS-related staff, including clinical teachers, researchers, and biomedical scientists and their supporting staff. We have again been delighted by the remarkable national and international interest in the Hippocrates awards, with around 1500 entries from 23 countries. The 2011 awards were judged by former Welsh National Poet Gwyneth Lewis, broadcaster and writer Mark Lawson, and Professor Steve Field CBE, Chairman of the National Health Inclusion Board. The Symposium will close with presentations by our judges of awards for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize.
16th March 2011: The 40 Commendations were awarded to entries from Canada (1), England (29), New Zealand (1), Scotland (2) and the USA (7). Commendations and top 6 Hippocrates Prize awards will be presented by judges BBC broadcaster Mark Lawson, former Welsh National Poet Gwyneth Lewis and leading GP Professor Steve Field on Saturday 7th May 2011 at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at Warwick Arts Centre for which members of the public are welcome to register. Three 2011 short-listed poets were also commended for separate entries: ‘Peripheral Neuropathy’ by Johanna Emeney, Albany, New Zealand; ‘From the Doctor's Wife, No need to say Thank-you’ and ‘Streetwise’ by Wendy French, London, UK; ‘Slip’ and ‘Bitter treatment’ by Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Cambridge, England. Five poets were commended twice: Jo Bell, Macclesfield; Wendy French, London; Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Cambridge, England; Frances-Anne King, Bath; Raymond Miller, Malvern Link ...
15th March 2011: Doctoral student Johanna Emeney has been shortlisted in the international category of Britain’s prestigious Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Ms Emeney, from the Albany campus of Massey University in New Zealand, entered four poems, one of which is among three shortlisted and another is in the top 40. The prize, worth £5000, attracted entries from 23 countries. Ms Emeney’s PhD in English is on medical discourse in poetry. She recently wrote a series of 10 poems on medical themes for the first stage of her thesis. Her link to the competition came while researching poems with “doctor-poet” and “patient-poet” voices. She read eminent New Zealand poet CK Stead’s collection, The Black River, written after he suffered a stroke in 2005, and learned about the prize when Stead won the international section of the inaugural competition last year with his poem, Ischaemia ...
A former actor, a dentist and a rising New Zealand poet are among six finalists for this year’s Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine - one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. Broadcaster and writer Mark Lawson, former Welsh National Poet Gwyneth Lewis and leading GP Professor Steve Field, chairman of the National Inclusion Health Board, have whittled down the 1,500 entries to just six. The winners will be announced at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the University of Warwick on May 7, which is being supported by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. The prize, which has a £15,000 award fund, is split into two strands – an open category and an NHS category with both carrying a first prize of £5,000. This year’s competition attracted entries from 23 countries right across the globe, with both professional poets and amateurs submitting poems on a medical theme.
Judges broadcaster and writer Mark lawson, poet Gwyneth Lewis and leading GP Professor Steve Field are meeting in London on 4th March to short list the top 3 Open International and top 3 NHS category awards for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Hippocrates Prize organisers Michael Hulse and Donald Singer discuss poetry and medicine with 7th May 2011 symposium speaker, Professor of Psychiatry Femi Oyebode.
Writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson has been named as the final judge for this year’s international competition for poetry and medicine, the 2011 Hippocrates Prize – one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem ...
Writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson has been named as the final judge for this year’s international competition for poetry and medicine, the 2011 Hippocrates Prize – one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. The BBC Radio 4 Front Row presenter joins Wales’ first national poet Gwyneth Lewis and Chairman of the National Health Inclusion Board Professor Steve Field CBE on the distinguished judging panel...
Jan 2011: MW Hulse and DRJ Singer. We are creatures of language, and it's through language that we confront our afflictions of body and mind. It was to serve this understanding that the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was established ...
In its twin categories of award, it reflects the fact that professional writers are drawn to medical subjects, while those who work in health services are no less likely to want to put their thoughts and feelings on paper.
For the ancient world, writing on scientific subjects in verse was the most natural thing in the world ... a tradition of writing in verse on medical matters can be traced down the centuries, in many parts of the world ...
Johanna Shapiro [Irvine, California] and Sarah Mourra [Yale, New Haven].
Medical educators are always experimenting with different ways to develop self aware, reflective, empathic, and compassionate doctors. One of these ways is poetry, which can help medical students by offering a unique method for re-examining self, others, and the world. The importance of poetry in medicine is increasingly being recognised. An international symposium will be held at Warwick University, UK, in 2011 (see http://go.warwick.ac.uk/cpt/poetry/symp/) ...
Wales’ first national poet Gwyneth Lewis and former RCGP chair, Professor Steve Field, have joined the judging panel for the international competition for poetry and medicine. The 2011 Hippocrates Prize has an £15,000 award fund for unpublished poems in English. The NHS-related category is open to NHS employees, health students and those working in professional organisations involved in education and training of NHS students and staff. Closing date: 31 January 2011.
Aspiring poets are being encouraged to take on the pros in the international competition for poetry and medicine, the 2011 Hippocrates Prize, which is for unpublished poems in English. There is a £15,000 award fund for the prizes. Poet Clare Pollard said: “Having my poetry published when I was sixteen altered my life. It made me believe I could actually be a writer, and vow to work as hard as I could to make it happen. The great thing about poetry is that age doesn't matter... If you put down the things you really want to say about our world, in your own voice, you will have written a powerful poem.” ...
We are creatures of language, and it’s through language that we confront our afflictions of body and mind. It was to serve this understanding that the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was established by Professor Donald Singer of Warwick University’s Medical School and poet Michael Hulse of the Warwick Writing Programme ...
Postgrad Med J January 2011;87(1023):1-2
In a wide-ranging exploration, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer chart the historic connections between poetry and medicine back to ancient Rome. They explain their own commitment to creating a dynamic contemporary forum - an annual international symposium - for practitioners in these two disciplines to meet and share ideas ...
Wales’ first national poet Gwyneth Lewis and former RCGP Chair, Professor Steve Field, have joined the judging panel for the 2011 International Hippocrates Prize, award fund £15,000, for unpublished poems in English on a medical theme...
Closing date 31st January 2011.
Awards announced at International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, 7 May 2011. For how to enter visit the Hippocrates’ website ...
Wales’ first national poet Gwyneth Lewis and outgoing Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners Professor Steve Field CBE have joined the judging panel for the international competition for poetry and medicine, the 2011 Hippocrates Prize, which is for unpublished poems in English. 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. The inaugural 2010 Hippocrates Prize attracted more than 1,600 entries from 31 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. There is a £15,000 award fund for the prizes, which will be given in an ‘open’ category, which anyone can enter, and in an ‘NHS’ category which is open to National Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations involved in education and training of NHS students and staff ...
26th Oct 2010: The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, is now accepting applications for the 2011 entry and invites both national and international submissions. I attended the one-day symposium and prizegiving last year and it was a real treat. The talks were very varied and it was a delight to hear the prizewinners read their poems. Next year's symposium is scheduled for 7 May 2011.
The “Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine”, is now accepting applications for the 2011 entry and invites both national and international submissions. Established in 2009, the competition represents the growing body of poetry that is being included in a variety of prestigious medical journals. An article published in the Lancet this year discusses the relevance of poetry for the physician and as a medium for recording our reflections on Medicine...
November issue: Article by Michael Hulse and Donald Singer featuring now open 2011 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, deadline 31st January 2011 ...
13th April 2010: The winners of the first annual Hippocrates prize for a poem on a medical subject have been announced. Wendy French, who facilitates creative writing in healthcare and community settings, won the prize in the competition’s NHS category for her poem It’s About a Man, which details the life of a doctor ...
 10th April 2010: New Zealand poet CK Stead has taken top place in the ‘open’ category. He is a distinguished writer with a substantial international reputation as a poet, novelist and critic. He said he was surprised and delighted to be the first winner of the ‘open’ section of the Hippocrates poetry prize. He said: “I wrote the poem Ischaemia in response to the announcement of the award ...
Wendy French has been chosen as the judges’ favourite in the ‘NHS’ category. She facilitates creative writing in health care and community settings for the NHS. She impressed the judges with her poem, It’s About a Man. She said: “I'm thrilled to have won the NHS section of this prize as my father was one of the first doctors to work for the NHS when it was formed in 1947 ...
23rd March 2010: Professor Donald Singer of Warwick Medical School, one of the founders, discusses the 2010 International Hippocrates prize, with Claire Bolderson. Includes reading of extract of commended entry by Canadian poet Gary Geddes on 'The doubt about gout' ...
23rd March 2010: A GP practice manager, an NHS education adviser, and a distinguished New Zealand poet were among the six finalists shortlisted for the first Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine. The winners received a £15,000 award fund. Professor Donald Singer of Warwick Medical School, one of the founders of the prize, explains to John Humphrys where the idea for the awards came from ...
In November, 2009, we launched the annual Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, with the inaugural 2010 awards to be presented at an international symposium in early April. Why this focus on what may seem at first sight an unlikely pairing? If we think of medical matters as they are reflected in literature ...
Medical poetry contest offers £15,000 prize for winning entry
By Jeremy Laurance and Amanda Hall
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Report on short-listing for the inaugural 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine:
Alongside the scalpel, the antibiotic and the X-ray, a new therapy is set to take its place in medicine's armamentarium – poetry. Prizes worth £15,000 for poems on a medical theme are to be awarded in a new international competition next month organised to celebrate the healing power of words. Six finalists have been shortlisted from more than 1,600 entries from 31 countries. The winners of the Hippocrates Prize ...
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