Awards were announced by the judges at the 4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the Wellcome Rooms in London on Saturday 18th May.
The 2013 Hippocrates Anthology of the 46 winning and commended poems will be launched after the Awards Symposium at the Wellcome Rooms in London on Saturday 18th May.
Below is the full list of short-listed and commended poets in both the Open and NHS categories of the 2013 Hippocrates Prize.
Short-listed Open entries in alphabetical order
At the Children's Hospital - Liam Corley, Riverside CA, USA
Morbidity and mortality rounds - Rafael Campo, Brookline MA, USA
Tooth - Matthew Barton, Bristol, Avon, England
Wild - Sue Wootton, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Commended Open entries
Cancer - Yakov Azriel, Efrat, Israel
Coughing - Abby Chew, Claremont, CA, USA
Counting the Stars - Val Thompson, Norton Canes, Staffs, England
Dysthymia and the Netherlandish Proverbs - Shelley McAlister, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
Gaithersburg Bus Stop Accident - Elisabeth Anna Murawski, Alexandria, VA, USA
Gordon of the Prostate Ward - Chris Bridge, Malton, North Yorks, England
Hands - Jane Clarke, Rathdrum, Wicklow, Ireland
Leo Sternbach’s Ghost - Will Nicoll, Edinburgh, Scotland
Marvels of the Invisible - Jenny Molberg, Denton, Texas, USA
Minutes - Valerie Fry, London, England
Nietszche in Torino - Tony Barnstone, Whittier, CA, USA
Pandemic - Allison McVety, Wokingham, Berks, England
Personal Questions - Rosie Garland, Manchester, England
Sample - Suzanna Louise Fitzpatrick, Blackheath, London, England
Skin - Pat Winslow, Witney, Oxon, England
The Cure - Joanna Sedgwick Otley West Yorks, England
The Last Glass Eye Maker - Lesley Saunders, Slough, Berks, England
The off-duty anaesthetist - Audrey Shafer Mountain View CA
Tinnitus - Peter Nash, Petrolia, CA, USA
Ways to Fight for Life in Harlem - Caits Meissner, NY New York, USA
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Short-listed NHS entries in alphabetical order
Biopsy - Ann Lilian Jay, Nr LLandysul, Ceredigion
Birds - Ann Elisabeth Gray, Liskeard, Cornwall
Downs - Mary V Williams, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Emergency Call - Ian McDowell, London
The New Man - Bella Madden, Milton Keynes, Bucks
Commended NHS entries
Anaesthesia’s Apology - Cheryl Moskowitz, London
Animal Electricity - Kim Lasky, Eastbourne, East Sussex
Artificial Rupture of Membranes - Ellen Storm, Liverpool, Merseyside
At a stroke: collateral circulation - Valerie Laws, Whitley Bay Northumberland
Bed Blocker - Iora Dawes, Stafford
Bomb - Derek John Peter Stanley, Bristol
Cholecystectomy - Andy Jackson, Tayport, Fife, Scotland
Fine - David Gilbert, London
Invincible - Roshni Beeharry, Enfield, Middlesex
Lucky - Denise Bundred, Sefton Village, Merseyside
My Wife - Thomas Heaton, Manchester
Schizo - M Athar Atherton, Bolton, Lancashire
Singleton hospital at night - Shehzad Latif, Swansea, Wales
Synchrony - Denise Bundred, Sefton Village, Merseyside
The missed appointment - Miles James Burrows, Cambridge
The old lady's friend - Nick MacKinnon, Winchester Hants
Two Bound Copies of the Lancet 1886 - Nick Leach, Market Harborough, Leics
Two to the Soul - Kate Compston, Bude, Cornwall
