I managed to sit down with Carys Bray recently to discuss her practice and craft.

Monday, 18 December 2017. Launch of The Hippocrates Book of the Heart in Sydney. The Hippocrates Book of the Heart was launched in Sydney on 26th September 2017 by Andrew Dimitri, Geoffrey Lehmann, Stephen Edgar from Australia and Michael Hulse from the UK. The launch took place at the Wallace Wurth Faculty of Medicine building at the University of New South Wales. The Hippocrates Book of the Heart. Order a printed copy of the book. The book brings together eighty .

Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine. 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Online entry for 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Video podcasts of Symposium Lectures.

Toni Stuart was born in Cape Town in 1983, and grew up in the city. Her poetry has been published in numerous.

Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo. Girls are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Doshi. Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller. Ricantations by Loretta Collins Klobah.

Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation Website. He is best known as a playwright for. This Way to the Tomb. Now housed at the University of Exeter. Ronald Duncan and Kathleen Ferrier More .

Poetry and Communication in the Medical World. In the din of medicine, what are the voices of our patients, what are our voices, that they become so hard to hear? In workshops that followed we discussed poems about diagnosis by Raymond Carver, Sharon Olds, Jon Glover. I had to remind myself I was not working with creative writing students, so acute was their understanding of the texts, so engaged were their responses. The poems led to an interest.

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US SWIMMERS YANKED OFF FLIGHT OUT OF RIO. Cameron Spencer via Getty Images.