2011 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine
Saturday 7th May 2011
Medical Teaching Centre, Building 37
University of Warwick Gibbet Hill Campus, CV4 7AL, UK
From the symposium web site: “For the 2011 symposium and 2011 Hippocrates Prize awards, we draw on national and international perspectives on three major historical and contemporary themes uniting the disciplines of poetry and medicine: medicine as inspiration for the writings of poets; effects of poetic creativity on the experience of illness by patients, their families, friends, and carers; and poetry as therapy. The Symposium includes discussion of early art as an inspiration, the influence of doctor poets, consideration of poetry as an aid to understanding illness, and poetry as passion for creative health professionals. Highlights of the day include poetry readings by New York poet and critic Marilyn Hacker and by 2011 Hippocrates Prize judge Gwyneth Lewis.”