The £5000 2014 Open International Hippocrates first prize has
been awarded to UK-based poet Jane Draycott.
The Hippocrates Prize is one of the most valuable poetry prizes in the world, with a yearly purse of £15000. Jane Draycott’s winning poem The Return concerns the many sanatoria around the world left standing very much as the day they were abandoned decades ago, remaining as if on stand-by for whenever their time comes again. The International Hippocrates Open Awards were presented by poet Philip Gross at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
The £5000 2014 Hippocrates NHS first prize has
been awarded to trainee paediatrician Ellen Storm from Liverpool for her new
poem Out of Hospital
Arrest. The second prize was won by Valerie Laws from Tyne and
Wear and the third prize went to Belfast poet and dentist Paula
Cunningham. The Hippocrates NHS
Awards were presented by barrister Robert Francis
QC at an International
Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on Saturday May
10th
Now in its 5th year,
winners for the 2014 Hippocrates NHS and Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine
were selected by judges poet Philip Gross, barrister Robert Francis QC and
Mumsnet Editor Sarah Crown from over 1000 entries from 31 countries.
The judges also
agreed 20 commendations in the NHS category, and 21 in the Open
International category, from England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, the USA, New
Zealand and Australia.
Conor McKee was awarded
the 2014 International Hippocrates
Young Poets £500 Prize. 18 year old Conor studies English
literature at Sidney Sussex College at the
University of Cambridge in England.
This new International
Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets is for an unpublished poem in English on a
medical theme by poets aged 14 to 18 years. The 2014 Prize attracted entries
from England, Ireland, and
Scotland, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, South Africa and the USA. It is one of the
most valuable poetry awards in the world for young poets.
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