User talk:HippoPoetPrize/International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

This new annual award draws draws together three currently largely separate themes linking poetry to medicine: a) increasing clinical interest since the 1960s in Poetry and Medicine is a major 'allied to medicine growth area', now with international societies and publications, b)interest from patient societies in poetry as a release from the medical concerns of patients, and their friends and families c)historical and current interest from professional and amateur poets in medicine as a theme for poetry. The page has now been edited to model the Man-Booker Prize description ie describing, rather than advertising, a major new annual Prize. The Hippocrates Proze was has already attracted interest as a concept from Malawi to Maryland. The Prize associated entry 'poetry and medicine prize' is already at the top of Google interest for this award, even without the 'Hippocrates' tag. With current interest in the theme of Poetry and Medicine, with a planned legacy with book and e-publications, and associated symposia with their contributors, audience and output, and with the nationally and internationally distinguished judges and institutions supporting the Prize, it merits an encyclopedia entry.

HippoPoetPrize (talk) 16:13, 13 December 2009 (UTC)