Monday 24th June 6.00 - 8.30pm
Rooms of the Medical Society of London
11 Chandos St, London W1G 9DR
The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine has been a major supporter of the Hippocrates Prize since it was founded. The FPM's 3rd Annual Summer Evening Event was devoted to the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
FPM President Donald Singer with new Hon. FPM Fellow Dannie Abse
Highlights included
- poet and doctor Dannie Abse made an Honorary Fellow of the FPM
- reading by Dannie Abse, member of judging panel for inaugural 2010 Hippocrates Prize
- readings by winning and commended poets in 2013 Hippocrates Prize
- readings from new Hippocrates Press anthology Born in the NHS
Lynne Hjelmgaard with Dannie Abse and Wendy French
The annual Hippocrates awards are in an Open category (1st Prize £5000), which anyone in the world may enter, and an NHS category (1st Prize £5000) 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; and a Young Poets Award of £500.
The Hippocrates Initiative began in 2009 as the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. The Hippocrates Initiative now also includes annual international symposia at which the Hippocrates awards are presented, an international research forum for poetry and medicine and The Hippocrates Press. Since its launch in 2009, the annual Hippocrates Prize has attracted thousands of entries from 55 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and from Finland to Australasia. With a purse of £15,000, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the most valuable poetry prizes in the world.
Hippocrates Prize poets with Dannie Abse and Donald Singer:
Back from left: Cheryl Moskowitz, Norbert Hirschorn, Valerie Fry, Alex Josephy
Middle: Bella Madden, Ellen Storm, Alison McVety, Lesley Saunders, Kim Lasky, Donald Singer
Front: Lynne Hjelmgaard, Dannie Abse, Wendy French
Programme
for the Hippocrates Initiative evening
Monday, June 24th 2013
Hosted by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
Venue
Rooms of the Medical Society of London
11,
Chandos Street, London W1G 9DR - 5 minutes walk from Oxford Circus
6.00 pm
Coffee
6.30 pm
Introduction: the Hippocrates Initiatives and the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine Professor Donald Singer - President, Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
6.40 pm
Award of Honorary FPM Fellowship to Dannie Abse
Reading by Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse at the 2010 Hippocrates Awards
6.55 pm
Readings by winning and commended poets 2013
Several winning poets live over oceans or at a distance in the UK: their poems will be read by other commended poets. The commended poems read will be read by commended poets who were able to attend the evening.
Young Poets Category
Winner
Posterior Instrumented Fusion for Adolescent Scoliosis by Rosalind Jana
NHS Category
Winning poems
1st prize Downs by
Mary Williams, read by Wendy French
2nd prize Birds
by Ann Elizabeth Gray read by Allison McVety
3rd prize shared
- The
New Man by Bella Madden
- Emergency
Call by Ian McDowell
- Biopsy by Ann Jay - read by Wendy French
Commended poems
Invincible by Rosni Beeharry
Animal
Electricity by Kim Lasky
At a
Stroke: Collateral Circulation by Valerie Laws
Anaesthesia’s Apology by Cheryl Moskowitz
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Open Category
Winning poems
1st prize Morbidity
and Mortality by Rafael Campo read by Ian McDowell
2nd prize shared
- Tooth by Matthew Barton - read by Norbert
Hirschorn
- At the Children’s Hospital by Liam
Corley - read by Lesley Saunders
- Wild
by Sue Wootton read by Bella Madden
Commended poems
Minutes by Valerie Fry
Personal Questions by Rosie Garland
Pandemic by Allison McVety
The Last Glass Eye by Lesley Saunders
Counting the Stars by Val Thompson
Born in the NHS by Wendy French and Jane Kirwan
Short reading by Wendy French and Lynne Hjelmgaard (who will read poems by
Jane who lives in Prague for half of the year)
7.40 pm
Reception: Wine and a Book Table
8.30 pm
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