Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Date: Saturday 10th May, 2014
08.30
Registration and coffee
09.00
Introduction
Donald Singer and Michael Hulse
co-founders of the Hippocrates Prize
Medical themes in poetry - 1
09.10
The Romantic ego in medical
poetry
Michael Hulse, University of Warwick
09.30
Show and
tell - poetry and illness as “narratives of last resort”
Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, University of East Anglia, Tromsø, Norway
09.50
Surgical metaphor in the
poetry of Sylvia Plath
David Francis, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne,
Australia
10.10
Dissident forms:
anorexia nervosa as a site of resistance in recent poetry from Ireland
Luz Mar González-Arias, University of Oviedo, Spain
10.30
Coffee and posters
Medical themes in poetry - 2
10.50
“The soft cough of death”:
traces of TB in the poetry of Norman Nicholson
Alan Beattie, University of Lancaster
11.10
Acts of naming disabilities in
contemporary poetry
Eleanor Ward, University of Manchester
11.30
Question and answer session
Chairs: Philip Gross and Giskin Day
11.50
Poetry readings
Clare Best, Rebecca Goss,
Lesley Saunders
12.40
Lunch
Health and poetry - 1
13.40
Panel discussion
Clare Best, Rebecca Goss,
Lesley Saunders
Chair:
Michael Hulse
Health and poetry - 2
14.10
The wounded healer: mental
health challenges in the medical profession
Ahmed Hankir, University of Manchester
14.30
Forgetfulness and ageing: what
poetry has to say about it
Dean Gianakos, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
14.50
Wordpharmacy
Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
15.10
Question and answer session
Dean Gianakos, Ahmed Hankir, Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
Chairs: Lesley Saunders and Donald Singer
15.30
Tea, posters and book signing
Hippocrates Prize awards ceremony
16:00
Readings by judges Philip Gross and Kit Wright
16.20
Young Poet, NHS and Open international Awards
presented by judges Sarah Crown, Robert Francis QC, Philip Gross and
Kit Wright.
Readings of winning poems
17.00
Wine reception and launch of the 2014 Hippocrates Prize Anthology
18.00
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