The
judging panel members for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize are Jo Shapcott, winner of the 2011 Queen's Gold Medal for
Poetry, Theodore Dalrymple, doctor and writer, and
Roger Highfield, science writer and Executive for the Science Museums Group.
Entries are now open for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine,
which is for unpublished poems in English of up to 50 lines text, excluding
title and line spacing.
Awards will be presented at
the 4th International Symposium for
Poetry and Medicine, to be held on Saturday 18th May, 2013 at the
Wellcome Collection Rooms in London.
2013 Hippocrates Prize judges: Roger Highfield, Jo Shapcott
& Theodore Dalrymple
Awards are in an Open category,
which anyone in the world may enter, and an NHS category, which is open to UK
National Health Service employees, health students and those working in
professional organisations involved in education and training of NHS students
and staff. The closing date for the Hippocrates Prize is 12 midnight January
31st, 2013.
In its first 3 years, the
Hippocrates Prize has attracted around 4000 entries from 44 countries, from the
Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia.
The Hippocrates poetry and
medicine initiative received the Award for Excellence and Innovation
in the Arts in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards.
Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three
award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992)
and My Life
Asleep (1998) are gathered in a
selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes
including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the
Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice).
Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001.
Her most recent collection, Of
Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the 2011 Costa Book Award. She was
awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in December 2011. Jo Shapcott teaches
creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Theodore Dalrymple is
the pen name for Dr Anthony Daniels, who has worked as a doctor in Sub-Saharan
Africa, the Gilbert Islands, London and Birmingham, most recently as a
psychiatrist and prison doctor.
His writing has appeared
regularly in the press and in medical publications, including the British
Medical Journal, the Times, Telegraph, Observer and the Spectator. His most
recent book is The
Pleasure of Thinking.
Roger Highfield is
the Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group. He was born in
Wales, raised in north London and became the first person to bounce a neutron
off a soap bubble.
He was the Science Editor of
The Daily Telegraph for two decades and the Editor of New Scientist between
2008 and 2011. His most recent book, with Martin Nowak is Supercooperators:
Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour.
For more about the 2013 Open
International and NHS Hippocrates Prize, emailhippocrates.poetry@gmail.com
Hippocrates
website: http://hippocrates-poetry.org/public_html
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