In London today, after a lively
discussion at the FPM, judges broadcaster
Martha Kearney, US poet Marilyn Hacker and medical researcher Professor Rod
Flower FRS have agreed the short-list for the 2012 Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and
Medicine. The NHS-related short list includes one poet from Scotland and two
from England. The Open international short-list includes one poet from the USA
and two from the UK. Themes ranged from identity and immunity to psychiatry and
alienation, and from global health to medicine in archaeology, and the role of
women in health.
The judges also agreed
commendations for 20 entries in the NHS category and 20 in the Open
International category - 2 from Australia, 1 from New Zealand, 7 from the USA
and 10 from the UK. Commended entries considered themes from birth to imaging,
cancer, health and disease in art, history of medicine and illness in the
family.
Awards will be
announced by the judges on Saturday 12th May in London at an International
Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the Henry Wellcome rooms, with speakers
and readers from the USA, France, Denmark, Russia, Cyprus, Greece and the UK.
Read the list and other information here.
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