7th International Poetry and Medicine Symposium and 2016 Hippocrates Awards|
Friday 15th April, 2016
11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB
The winners and commended entrants will be announced by the judges at the end of the 7th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine
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The 2016 symposium will includes lectures, round table discussions and poetry readings.
There will be sessions on historical and contemporary themes, illness and poetry, poetry as therapy, poetry in the education of health professionals, and poetry as an aid to health professionals.
2016 Symposium Faculty includes:
Liz Barry (University of Warwick, UK; speaker); Rafael Campo (Harvard, USA: Open and NHS awards judge and reader); Wendy French (London: Open and NHS awards judge and reader); Luz Mar González-Arias (University of Oviedo, Spain: speaker); Siân Hughes (Banbury, UK: Young Poets judge); Michael Hulse (Hippocrates Initiative: chair); Antonis Kousoulis (Mental Health Foundation, London: speaker); Nathalie Jones (University of Warwick, UK: speaker); Dennis Linder (University of Graz; speaker); Rev. Gareth Powell (London, UK: Open and NHS awards judge); Donald Singer (Hippocrates Initiative: chair).
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Draft Programme outline
9.30
Registration + coffee
9.50
Introduction
10.00
Natalie Jones, Warwick
‘On Ground curiously neutral’?:
Community, Critique and the NHS in Philip Larkin’s The Building
10.20
Donald Singer, London
Studies of benefits of
poetry for patients
10.40
Round table discussion
11.00
Coffee
11.20
Luz Mar Gonzales-Arias, Oviedo
Blood Debts: The Uneasy Combination of Hepatitis C and
Poetry
11.40
Dennis Linder, Graz
Mary
Kennan Herbert’s Skin Man series
12.00
Round table discussion
12.30
Lunch
13.30
Readings
Rafael Campo, Harvard, USA
Wendy French, London
14.10
Elizabeth Barry, Warwick
These Palimpsests of Time: Poetry, Psychoanalysis and Ageing
14.30 Round table discussion
15.00
Coffee
15.30
Awards ceremony
Awards presented by the judges
Readings by winning and commended poets
17.15 Reception
Launch of books by Rafael Campo and Wendy French
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Abstracts from the 2015 Symposium
Contributors to the 2015 Symposium
Online programme from the 2015 Symposium
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