The winners in the 2020 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine were announced online by a broadcast on Zoom at 8 pm UK time on Friday 15th May 2020.
We have decided to designate Save the Children as our charity for 2020.
The video below shows reports by the judges and readings by all winning and 12 commended poems.
8 pm - Start of online session on Zoom
1. Introduction to the 2020 Hippocrates Prize Awards
Michael Hulse and Donald Singer
2. The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Judge Lawrence Sail
a. Short-list for the 2020 Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize (alphabetical order by surname)
All the Places We've Been Katherine Vandermel Closter, New Jersey USA
Blur Katherine Vandermel Closter, New Jersey USA
Bright-body Cynthia Lu Belmont, Massachusetts USA
Endoscopy results in room #1 Rachel Brooks Trumbull, Connecticut, USA
Obituary of a Lost Girl Sarah Eliana Nachimson, Los Angeles, California, USA
Pink Milk Sabrina Guo Oyster Bay, New York, USA
b. Remarks on the Young Poet entries
c. Reading of short-listed poem
d. The Hippocrates Young Poet winner: announced by judge Lawrence Sail
d. Reading of the winning poem and a selected other short-listed poem
3. The FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional and the FPM-Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine
a. Remarks on behalf of the judges: Sir Roland Jackson Bt
b. Readings of selected Commended poems in the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Awards
c. Short-list for the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Prize (alphabetical order by surname)
The Untouchable Oona Chantrell London England
A Laying On Of Hands In the OR Lauren Fields New York City, United States
By Virtue of the Merits of her Son Patrick Toland Belfast, Co. Down, N Ireland
First Do No Harm Judith Wozniak Fareham, Hampshire, England
Second Opinion Judith Wozniak Fareham, Hampshire, England
d. Announcement by Roland Jackson of the 3rd, 2nd and 1st Prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Awards and readings of the winning poems
e. Readings of selected Commended poems in the FPM-Hippocrates Open Awards
e. Short-list for 2020 FPM-Hippocrates Prize Open Awards (alphabetical order by surname)
After your procedure Clare Best Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Fighting the Minotaur Ian Colin London, England
It's Time We Found A Different Metaphor Rosie Jackson, Trudoxhill, Frome, Somerset, England
People Scare Me Because Sarah James Droitwich, Worcestershire, England
A letter from Dr Parkinson’s discovery John Mills Stone, Staffordshire, England
g. Announcement by Sir Roland Jackson of the 3rd, 2nd and 1st Prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Open Awards and readings of the winning poems
4. The 2020 Hippocrates Prize Anthology. Weblink to order a copy.
5. The 10 Year Hippocrates Prize Anthology.
Launch date 4th November 2020 - either as a meeting in London or a live webcast depending on COVID-19 restrictions at the time.
6. Once Upon a Time in Aleppo by Fouad M. Fouad. Tr. by Norbert Hirschhorn
7. Future monthly “Poems to Live for” live webcasts
a. 3rd session: 9pm UK time on Wednesday 10th June
- Readings by judges Lawrence Sail and Geoffrey Lehmann.
- We also welcome suggestions for poems (out of copyright) you would like read. You may also email us with a reading of a favourite poem (must not your own AND must be out of copyright). We can’t promise to use all readings or suggestions but we shall use as many as possible.
b. 4th session: 9pm UK time on Wednesday 8th July
Further readings of commended poems in the 2020 Hippocrates Prize.
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