The international
Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets is for an unpublished poem in
English on a medical theme. Entrants may be from young poets anywhere in
the world aged 14 to 18 years. The 2013 Prize attracted entries from the UK,
USA and Australia.
The
winner of the inaugural Hippocrates Young Poets Prize of £500 is Rosalind Jana from
Hereford Sixth Form College in England, for her poem ‘Posterior Instrumented
Fusion for Adolescent Scoliosis’. 17-year-old student Rosalind has already had
writing published in British Vogue
and Lionheart.
The winning entry was decided by judge and award-winning poet
Clare Pollard, who published her first collection of poetry at the age of
19.
About the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize she said: “I'm very
pleased to be judging the first Hippocrates Prize for Schools - in bringing
science and art together, I hope it will deepen students’ understanding of
both, and uncover poets of the future.” She added that the top
entries were “extraordinarily accomplished for
writers of 18 or under”.
Of
Rosalind Jana’s winning poem she commented:
“It is hard to believe that a poem with such an ugly name can be so beautiful,
but it is an incredible display of control and craft, formally brilliant and
full of striking visual imagery - the shuttered murk, the meaty spine, the
cloak of skin, the ‘morphine black blown out by light’. It is both
passionate and eerily detached - a deeply impressive piece of work.”
Hippocrates Prize founders clinical professor Donald Singer
and poet Michael Hulse said: “We are delighted that the Hippocrates Prize for
Young Poets is already having an international impact in inspiring a new
generation of poets.”
Saturday 18th May 2013: Hippocrates Awards and 4th International
Symposium on Poetry and Medicine : Wellcome Rooms, 183 Euston Rd, London
No comments:
Post a Comment