Where science collides with life: short-list announced for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize - NZ poet included

A Harvard physician, a rising New Zealand Poet, a BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year from Bristol, and professor of literature from California are finalists for this year’s Open Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, at £5000 in both Open and NHS categories, one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem.

And competing for the UK NHS 2013 Hippocrates £5000 first prize are family doctor Ann Lilian Jay from LLandysul in Wales, former nurse Ann Elisabeth Gray who runs a care home for dementia in Cornwall, poet and novelist Mary V Williams from Shropshire, hospital chaplain Ian McDowell, from London and director of midwifery Bella Madden from Milton Keynes.

 Now in its fourth year, the short-listed entries for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine have been selected from over 1000 entries from 32 countries …  Awards to be announced 18th May in London.

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