{"id":841,"date":"2015-05-28T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=841"},"modified":"2015-06-10T13:54:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:54:44","slug":"the-reading-room-the-2015-hippocrates-poetry-and-medicine-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/05\/28\/the-reading-room-the-2015-hippocrates-poetry-and-medicine-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reading Room: The 2015 Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international prize for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. It was launched in 2009 and consists of awards in three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Open Category<\/li>\n<li>An NHS Category<\/li>\n<li>A Category for Young Poets (14-18 years).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 2015 judges were poets Rebecca Goss and Simon Rae, author and poet Theodore Dalrymple, and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode. The awards were announced at the 6<sup>th<\/sup> International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for her poem <em>A Technique for Operating on the Past<\/em>, which was inspired by her neuroscientist great grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS first prize went to former counsellor Kate Compston from Cornwall for a poem about revealing the diagnosis of dementia, <em>Lovely Young Consultant Charms My Husband<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Parisa Thepmankorn from New Jersey received the 2015 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for\u00a0<em>Intraocular Pressure<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Links to YouTube readings of these poems and all winners in each category can found here<br \/>\n<u><a href=\"http:\/\/donaldsinger.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/05\/2015-hippocrates-prize-awarded-to-new.html\">http:\/\/donaldsinger.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/05\/2015-hippocrates-prize-awarded-to-new.html<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international prize for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. It was launched in 2009 and consists of awards in three categories: An Open Category An NHS Category A Category for Young Poets (14-18 years). The 2015 judges were poets Rebecca Goss and Simon [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/05\/28\/the-reading-room-the-2015-hippocrates-poetry-and-medicine-prize\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}