International Hippocrates prize for poetry and medicine

Dannie Abse: doctor and poet

“…He was a central figure within the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine1 as a member of the International Board of the Hippocrates Press and as a regular contributor to readings of Hippocrates poetry and medicine events during the first 5 years of the initiative. He was also in 2010 the first poet judge of the now internationally established Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and Medicine, from which winning poems have been published in the PMJ 2 3. He brought to this new award for unpublished poetry on a medical theme incisive dual insight as doctor and poet.…”

Poetry as medical humanity: poems from the inaugural 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

“…It was to serve this understanding that the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was established1 2 by Professor Donald Singer of Warwick University's Medical School and poet Michael Hulse of the Warwick Writing Programme. The inaugural Hippocrates Prize was awarded both in an ‘open’ category—which anyone anywhere was eligible to enter—and an ‘NHS’ category open to National Health Service related employees and health students (see details of the awards) i.…”