Previous Symposia Programmes

Saturday 18th May 2013
Symposium and Hippocrates Awards venue: Henry Wellcome Lecture Theatre,
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2B

2013 Symposium Faculty

Theodore Dalrymple (Doctor and writer; 2013 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel); Michael Hulse (Speaker and Chair; Writing Programme, Warwick):Roger Highfield (Director of External Affairs, Science Museum Group, London: 2013 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel); Anne Hudson Jones (Speaker: Harris L Kempner Professor in Humanities in Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston); Andrew McMillan (Speaker: Liverpool); Hugues Marchal (Speaker: Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Basel University, Switzerland); Femi Oyebode (Chair: Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham); Jo Shapcott (Poet, Royal Holloway College, London; 2013 Hippocrates Prize Judging Panel); Donald Singer (Speaker and Chair; Warwick Medical School).

2012 Hippocrates Awards for poetry and medicine

were announced at the 2012 Symposium by judges:

BBC broadcaster Martha Kearney
poet Marilyn Hacker
scientist Prof Rod Flower FRS

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).

09.10 Introduction

Donald Singer and Michael Hulse, University of Warwick

Medical themes in poetry (1)

09.20
Medicine and Health in Medieval Arabic Poetry
Rabie E Abdel-Halim, Liverpool

09.40
The concept of Syphilis in Greek poetry: retracing unique perspectives
Antonis A. Kousoulis, University of Athens, Greece

10.00
De Motu Cordis. Allusions to Poetry in the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
John Riddington Young, Bideford, Devon

10.20 Question and Answer Session

10.40 Coffee and Posters

Medical themes in poetry (2)

11.00
Pure poetry, 19th century notions of hygiene, Charles Baudelaire, and Stéphane Mallarmé
Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

11.20
Contemporary English-language poetry on illness: ‘My main job is to translate / pain into tales they can tolerate // in another language’
Jane Dowson, de Montfort University, Leicester

11.40
Breaking Bad News: What Poetry Has To Say About It
Dean Gianakos, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA

Clare Wilmot, Dartmouth, USA

12.10 Question and Answer Session

Guest Poetry Reading

12.30 Jo Shapcott

13.00 Lunch and Posters

Keynote address

14.00
Medicine and poetry: a husband and a lover
Eleni Theocharous MEP, Cyprus

Poetry in therapy and education (1)

14.30
Substance to Symbol: Toward the Inclusion of Great Poetry in Alcohol Addiction Recovery Programs for the Homeless
Robert Randolph, Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, USA

14.50
Sharing the journey: rediscovering a lost sense of self with poetry making.
Sue Spencer, County Durham

15.10 Tea and Posters

Poetry in therapy and education (2)

15.30
The medical student as poet
Sue Eckstein and Jackie Wills, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex

15.50
The use of poetry in reflective learning for GPs
Edward Picot, Cranbrook, Kent

16.10 Question and Answer Session

16.30 Tea

HIPPOCRATES AWARDS CEREMONY

17.00
Reading by Marilyn Hacker

Remarks on behalf of the Judges: Martha Kearney

NHS awards: Professor Rod Flower FRS

Open International awards: Marilyn Hacker

Readings from the winning poems

18.00 Close and Reception for speakers, delegates and Hippocrates Prize winners

Please note that the programme may be subject to change

The 2012 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is supported by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

To express interest in supporting the 2012 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

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

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

The 2010 International Poetry and Medicine Symposium was supported by the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study, the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and a Medical Humanities award from the Wellcome Trust.

2010 Programme

Saturday 10th April, 2010

Venue: University of Warwick Arts Centre Conference Room, Coventry CV4 7AL

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.