Wednesday 4th November 2020 9pm UK time
Watch a recording of the readings below from the 10 year Hippocrates Prize Anthology
Poems to Live for: Session 7
Chairs: Michael Hulse and Donald Singer
Launch of the 10 year Anthology for the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Readings by the winning poets - 2010 to 2014
2010 Wendy French, London, England it’s about a man
2011 Wendy French, London, England The Doctor’s Wife
2010 Alex Josephy, London, England The Corridor
2010 C. K. Stead, Aukland, New Zealand Ischaemia
2011 Paula Cunningham, Belfast, N Ireland The Chief Radiographer Considers
2014 Paula Cunningham, Belfast, N Ireland A History of Snow
2011 Sandy Goldbeck Wood, Cambridge, England Inappropriate ADH
2011 Michael Henry, Cheltenham, England The Patella Hammer
2011 Cheryl Moskowitz, London, England Correspondence with the Care Home
2011 Johanna Emeney, New Zealand Radiologist’s Report
2012 Andy Jackson, Tayport, Scotland Allogeneic
2012 Jane Kirwan, London, England Mr. Blatný Perseveres
2012 Mary Bush, North Texas, USA Women’s Work
2013 Ann Lilian Jay, Ceredigion, Wales Biopsy
2015 Ann Lilian Jay, Ceredigion, Wales Night Visit
2013 Bella Madden, Milton Keynes, England The New Man
2014 Ellen Storm, Liverpool, England Out of Hospital Arrest
2014 Valerie Laws, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, England Acute Mountain Sickness: Everest
2014 Ailsa Holland, Macclesfield, England Weekend
2014 Stephanie Gangi, New York, NY, USA Four
2017 Andrew Dimitri, Sydney, Australia It Will Make a Fine Hospital
For future sessions, we welcome suggestions of poems (out of copyright) 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.
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