Wednesday 8th July 2020
9pm UK time
Poems to Live for: Session 4
Chairs: Michael Hulse and Donald Singer
Readings by commended poets in the 2020 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Betsy Bouldin, Louisiana, USA The Navy Code - Health Professional
Carole Bromley, North Yorkshire, England There Was Always the Sky - Health Professional
Susan Butler, Yorkshire, England The Work of Women - Health Professional
Oona Chantrell, London, England Song of the Night Ward - Health Professional
Robert John Gainer Coventry, England Imposters - Open
Rosie Garland, Manchester, Eczema - Open
Joseph Gascho, Pennsylvania, USA Journey to Rome, 1820 - Health Professional
John Anthony Herring, Texas, USA Blind - Health Professional
James May, Georgia, USA The Brain on the Table - Open
Julia Meade, Pennsylvania, USA Physician Suicide - Health Professional
Elizabeth Murawski, Virginia, USA Hiroshima Maiden - Open
Robyn Joy Peirce, Vermont, USA Cancer -
Open
Janet Wainscott, Canterbury, New Zealand This Is How It Ends - Open
Judith Wozniak, Hampshire, England A Routine House Call - Health Professional
Judith Wozniak, Hampshire, England Undercover - Health Professional
An initial 12 commended poems were read by the poets during our Awards Webinar on 15th May. Further commended poems will be read during our session on 8th July.
2020 FPM-Hippocrates Prize Open Commendations
Biographies and inspirations for Open commended poets
2020 FPM-Hippocrates Prize Health Professional Commendations
Biographies and inspirations for Health Professional commended poets
Our Poems to Live for online sessions are held monthly, usually on the 2nd Wednesday at 9pm UK time.
We welcome suggestions for poems (out of copyright and not your own) you would like read or to read yourself. Please email us as soon as possible with your suggestions. We can’t promise to use all readings or suggestions but we shall use as many as possible.