{"id":9157,"date":"2011-06-03T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2011-06-03T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:56:29","slug":"sandy-goldbeck-wood-poetry-humanity-and-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2011\/06\/03\/sandy-goldbeck-wood-poetry-humanity-and-the-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Goldbeck-Wood: Poetry, humanity and the prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/sandy_gw.jpg\" alt=\"Sandy Goldbeck-Wood\" width=\"162\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" \/>Why do some doctors write poems? I asked this once in a<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/318\/7184\/676.2\">BMJ<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/318\/7184\/676.2\"> book review of poetry by doctors<\/a>. 12 years on, gamekeeper-turned-poacher, it\u2019s still Miroslav Holub\u2019s answer I like best: \u201ca poem arises when there\u2019s nothing else to be done, as a last attempt at order when one can\u2019t stand disorder any longer.\u201d (1) Lest we miss it, he presses his point home in terms healthcare professionals cannot fail to understand:\u00a0 \u201cAlthough poets are most needed when freedom, vitamin C, communications, laws, and hypertension therapy are also most needed \u2026 a poem is not one of the last but one of the first things of man.\u201d\u00a0 As a world class immunologist and poet, Holub was uniquely qualified to comment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the 1 500 entries from 23 countries for this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippocrates-poetry.org\/\">Hippocrates Prize for Medicine and Poetry<\/a>, it\u2019s clear that Holub\u2019s view has sympathisers within and beyond the NHS. Whatever it is that poetry offers us, be it a place to put unexpressed feelings, a refuge from medicine\u2019s deadly-earnestness, or chance for creativity to fight back against all that science, the fact is that doctors, dentists, nurses, and radiographers are secretly spinning consultations, investigations, diseases, and treatments into poems, and playing subversive games with medicine\u2019s strange but enchanting language.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThere\u2019s nothing new about this, viewed globally and historically &#8211; the connection between medicine and poetry can be traced back in a more or less unbroken line to Hippocrates himself. But what Hippocrates Prize co-founders Donald Singer and Michael Hulse have achieved since founding the prize in 2010 is to build a strong new academic bridge between medicine and poetry within the United Kingdom. With generous funding from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpm-uk.org\/\">The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvrt.org.uk\/\">Cardiovascular Research trust<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hti.org.uk\/\">Heads, Teachers and Industry<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\">the Wellcome Trust<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwick.ac.uk\">University of Warwick<\/a>, with judges drawn from among leading international poets, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannieabse.com\/\">Dannie Abse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwynethlewis.com\/\">Gwyneth Lewis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marilyn_Hacker\">Marilyn Hacker<\/a>, and the BBC\u2019s James Naughtie and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2011\/may\/07\/mark-lawson-medical-poetry-prize\">Mark Lawson<\/a>, these two Warwick-based professors of Clinical Pharmacology (Singer) and Literature (Hulse) respectively have created not only a prize, but a new research community in the medical humanities.<\/p>\n<p>A now annual Medicine and Poetry Symposium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/med\/research\/csri\/research\/cpt\/poetry\/symp\">next to be hosted at the Wellcome Foundation<\/a>, and an emerging <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/med\/research\/csri\/research\/cpt\/poetry\/research\">International Medicine and Poetry Research Forum<\/a>, explore themes from the history of poetry and medicine, through medicine as a source of inspiration or subject matter for poetry, to poetry as a therapeutic tool. Academic perspectives from literature and psychoanalysis meet practical therapeutic initiatives from the GP surgery, hospital, or community. The poetry of premier practitioners such as Chekhov, Carlos Williams, Holub and the prize judges themselves, meets that of disaffected New Zealand young people, dementia sufferers, or nurses in training.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never won a poetry prize before. When I heard I\u2019d come third, I thought of that Monopoly card: &#8220;You have won third prize in a poetry competition!&#8221; which usually elicits just a wry smile and a few quid to put towards a green plastic house on the Old Kent Road, while the real winners build hotels on Mayfair.\u00a0 But to someone compelled to scribble poems late at night between more obviously urgent and useful tasks, and then bathe in the stream of editorial rejections which is most poems\u2019 fate, the pleasure of winning anything feels more like winning the lottery. Pleasure mixed, I confess, with relief &#8211; as though in receipt of an authoritative diagnosis to explain and legitimate one\u2019s odd, irrational behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to shame. I argued in this year\u2019s Medicine and Poetry symposium that shame haunts the writing of poetry like it haunts sexual advance. Think of both as erotic gestures &#8211; bare-faced and indefensible in terms of practical usefulness &#8211; and you see the point. Neither will earn you a Merit Award or a hotel on Mayfair. Both depend, critically, on nothing but whether the other person likes who you are and what you are doing. And if they don\u2019t, that makes you a nuisance, ridiculous, or objectionable.<\/p>\n<p>So why should healthcare care about poetry? If for no other reason, then because healthcare practitioners are writing it. It is one place they are reflecting on their practice, and therefore a source of data it would be wasteful to ignore. Think of it as another form of Medical Education or CPD, developing not technical skills and performance, but humanity, in the face of all that science and suffering; psychic glue, to anneal inappropriately disconnected parts. If it could do that\u00a0(and look out for future workshops exploring this [2])\u00a0 \u2013 that would be the real prize.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sandy Goldbeck-Wood<\/strong>, doctor, poet, editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Hippocrates Prize Anthologies for 2010 and 2011 can be bought via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/med\/research\/csri\/research\/cpt\/poetry\/book\/\">http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/med\/research\/csri\/research\/cpt\/poetry\/book\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1]: Poem: &#8220;Although&#8221; in: Poems Before and After, Bloodaxe.<\/p>\n<p>[2]: For more information on future Poetry in Healthcare Workshops, contact: <a href=\"mailto:goldbeckwood@doctors.org.uk\">goldbeckwood@doctors.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some doctors write poems? 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