Poems to Live for: live webinars
9 Dec 2020. Poems to Live for 8: 10 year Anthology for the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine - part 2.
Wednesday 9th December 2020 9pm UK time
Click here to watch the recording of Part 1 of the launch from Wednesday 4th November 2020
Poems to Live for: Session 8
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 - 2015 to 2019
2013 Sue Wootton, Dunedin, New Zealand Wild
2013 Mary Williams, Market Drayton, England Downs
2015 Kate Compston, Cornwall, England Lovely Young Consultant Charms My Husband
2015 Carole Bromley, York, England On Hearing for the First Time
2015 Rowena Warwick, Thame, England Mrs Noone
2016 Denise Bundred, Surrey, England A Cardiologist Seeks Certainty
2019 Denise Bundred, Surrey, England Addressing a Fetal Heart
2016 Chris Woods, Bury, England Blood Pressure Monitors
2016 Karen Schofield, Crewe, England Community Medicine 1974
2016 Owen Lewis, New York, NY, USA At Tribeca’s Edge
2016 Anne Ryland, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England Anna’s Left Hand
2016 Jane McLaughlin, London, England Poetry Takes up the Neurosurgeon
2017 Kathy D’Arcy, Cork, Ireland Inside
2017 Iora Dawes, Stafford, England Children’s Ward Week Two
2017 Alisha Kaplan, Toronto, Canada Coming Off Eight Years of Escitalopram
2017 Claire Collison, London, England (tbc) The Ladies’ Pond
2017 Rosie Jackson, Trudoxhill, England A Ward Sister Remembers the Spencers
2018 Emma Storr, Leeds, England Six Week Check
2018 Raphael Dagold, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Pharmacology
2019 Rebecca Byrne, County Carlow, Ireland The Butcher's Doll
2019 Claudia Daventry, St Andrews, Scotland for my Valentine in an fMRI scanner
2019 Simon Rae, Powys, Wales The Wheelhouse
2019 Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Pennsylvania, USA Excision
2019 Michael Swan, Oxon, England Advice to a Medical Student
For future sessions, we welcome suggestions of 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.
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1 Oct 2020: Poems to Live for 6. Poems from conflict areas.
Thursday 1st October 2020
9pm UK time
Poems to Live for: Session 6 - On UK National Poetry Day
Watch a recording of the session
Chairs: Michael Hulse and Donald Singer
1. Launch of ONCE UPON A TIME IN ALEPPO by FOUAD M. FOUAD
حدث†ذات†مرة†ف†ي†حلب
Translated from the Arabic by Norbert Hirschhorn and Fouad M. Fouad
The Hippocrates Press £10 ISBN 978-0-9935911-8-1
Click here for more on the book and how to order a copy
Publication date: 1st October, 2020
Syrian doctor poet Fouad M. Fouad and his family left their city of Aleppo in 2012 and took refuge in Lebanon, where Fouad now teaches at the American University of Beirut. The poems in this book, translated by fellow poet and physician Norbert Hirschhorn together with the author, record the witness of an outraged doctor and writer in times of extremis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fouad M. Fouad is a physician and poet from Aleppo. Following the outbreak of the war in Syria, he and his family moved to Lebanon where he is now at the American University of Beirut. Dr Fouad is deeply engaged in research and action on behalf of Syrian refugees. He has published five volumes of poetry in Arabic, the most recent being Once Upon a Time in Aleppo. Several of his poems have appeared in translation in English and French poetry journals.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specialising in international public health, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an American Health Hero, and following in the tradition of physician-poets. He now lives in Minnesota. His poems have been published widely, and the most recent of his five collections is Stone. Bread. Salt. Hirschhorn’s work has won a number of prizes in the US and UK. More information is available from his website, www.bertzpoet.com.
2. Readings by Dr Andi Dimitri, Sydney - author of the collection Winter in Northern Iraq
For the past decade, Sydney physician Andrew Dimitri has spent substantial periods working with Médecins sans Frontières in some of the most complex and challenging regions of the world. In early 2017 he was tasked with the oversight of a new MSF hospital on the fringe of Mosul, while the battle to oust Isis was still raging only a short distance away. These poems are his record of what he saw and the people he met amid the ruins, their injuries, their stories, their traumas.
It Will Make a Fine Hospital took second prize in the 2017 Hippocrates Prize and was widely seen when it was chosen as a Poem of the Week in The Guardian. Commenting on it there, Carol Rumens found that Dimitri’s plain diction, casual syntax, laconic tone, and balance of irony and hope, impeccably expressed the complexity of the experience. Now Winter in Northern Iraq makes available all thirty poems written by Andrew Dimitri out of his own encounter with a region ravaged by tragedy. With the author’s pragmatic compassion and his understated determination to make a difference, these poems resist despair and generate the grounds for hope.
Read the Guardian poem of the week article by Carol Rumens about It Will Make a Fine Hospital
4 Nov 2020: Poems to Live for 7: 10 year Anthology for the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine - part 1.
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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