Jane Draycott wins £5,000 Hippocrates prize
Jane Draycott – pictured with judge Philip Gross – has won the £5,000 Hippocrates prize for poetry and medicine. The second prize was won by UK poet Ailsa Holland and the third prize was shared by New York poet Stephanie Gangi and South African poet Karen Nel. Draycott’s winning poem ‘The Return’ concerns the many abandoned sanatoriums around the world, remaining as if on stand-by for whenever their time comes again. This year’s Hippocrates contest attracted more than 1,000 entries from 31 countries. More details