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Entries for the 2021 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine are now open.
- deadline 14 February 2021 for Open and Health Professional entries: £1000 for 1st Prize in each category
- deadline 1 March 2021 for Young Poet Prize (age 14-18): £500 Prize

Order The Hippocrates Prize - The First 10 Years: The Winning Poems 2010-2019

Order: Once Upon a Time in Aleppo by Fouad M Fouad

Order: Illness as inspiration: The Poetry of Medicine and Disease by Theodore Dalrymple

Order: 2020 Hippocrates Prize Anthology

Order: Winter in Northern Iraq
by Andrew Dimitri

Hippocrates Open winner Mary Bush reading Women’s Work on BBC Women’s Hour

Listen to judge Robert Francis QC discussing the Hippocrates shortlist with Martha Kearney on the BBC's World at One and hear extracts of shortlisted poems

Read about and hear winning entries in the Hippocrates Prize

Order Hippocrates Press publications

Hippocrates Prize Anthologies
Once Upon a Time in Aleppo
Illness as inspiration by Theodore Dalrymple
Winter in Northern Iraq by Andrew Dimitri
The Hippocrates Book of the Heart
Comfort Measures Only by Rafael Campo
Thinks Itself a Hawk by Wendy French
Rupture: an anthology of poems by Ellen Storm
Love your Heart anthology
Born in the NHS by Wendy French and Jane Kirwan

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2018 winners in Chicago

Videos of Healthy Heart Poetry by schools

« Online schools entry for healthy heart poetry or heart healthy recipe for 2015 Anthology

Healthy Heart Poetry

Photo Library: 2014 Readings and Awards »

Healthy Heart Awards: 4th December 2014

Selected readings from the 2014 Love your Heart anthology.

Listen to readings of healthy heart poems from the anthology.

Healthy Heart Awards: 5th December 2013

Little Red Balloon: from Chevening CE Primary School - read by Raphael Shirley

Heart or Else: heart poem from Chevening CE Primary School - read by Raphael Shirley

Healthy Heart Poem during Assembly - performed by Year 6Ws, Dulwich Hamlet Junior School

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