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24 June Dannie Abse: Annual FPM Summer Event
Monday 24th June 6.00 -
8.30pm
Rooms of the Medical Society of
London
11 Chandos St, London
W1G 9DR
The Fellowship of Postgraduate
Medicine has
been a major supporter of the Hippocrates Prize since it was
founded. The FPM's 3rd Annual Summer Evening
Event will be devoted to the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and
Medicine. Highlights include a reading by poet and doctor Dannie
Abse, member of the judging panel for the inaugural 2010
Hippocrates Prize.
The annual Hippocrates awards are in an
Open category (1st Prize £5000), which anyone in the world may
enter, and an NHS category (1st Prize £5000) 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; and a Young Poets Award of
£500.
The Hippocrates Initiative began in 2009 as
the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for an unpublished
poem on a medical subject. The Hippocrates
Initiative now also includes
annual international symposia at which the
Hippocrates awards are presented, an international research forum
for poetry and medicine and The Hippocrates Press.
Since its launch in 2009, the annual Hippocrates
Prize has attracted thousands of entries from 55 countries, from
the Americas to Fiji and from Finland to Australasia. With a
purse of £15,000, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the most valuable
poetry prizes in the world.
Registration costs £10, including coffee and a wine
reception after the readings.
Programme for the Hippocrates Initiative
evening