by GAtherton | Jan 30, 2019 | Patient stories, Video
Parisa Thepmankorn from Rockaway, New Jersey received the £500 2015 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for ‘Intraocular Pressure’. The other shortlisted poets were Daniella Cugini from Warwick in England for ‘the surgeon dissects his lover’ and US...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Patient stories, Video
The Hippocrates £5000 NHS first prize (hippocrates-poetry.org) went to former counsellor Kate Compston from Cornwall for a poem about revealing the diagnosis of dementia. The Hippocrates Prize is an annual award for poetry and medicine with a closing date of 31st...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Patient stories
I imagine your birthmyth: earth humid, steaming with gases, plasma rising, cells undivided,blood floating homeless.It was the first day, not the sixth, before darkness became night and night became ebony or jet.Your unformed jaguar-leopard presencehung like a...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Patient stories
Dear Doctor, I have read your play,Which is a good one in its way,Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels,And drenches handkerchiefs like towelsWith tears that, in a flux of grief,Afford hysterical reliefTo shatter’d nerves and quicken’d pulses,Which your...
by GAtherton | Jan 29, 2019 | Patient stories
Finding Poetry in IllnessPhoto by C.J.W. Johson, 1870 BY JENNIFER NIX On the winter solstice of 2008, I am wobbling in orange Wellies atop a bed of rocks and sea anemones, making my inelegant way to the “big rock.” Cupped in my right hand is a medicine bag holding a...