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2022 The Long List

27 May 2022

This is the "Long List" of commended poems for The Plough Prize 2022.

In alphabetical order:

POEM BY
20 Bus Erin Craine
A Good and Honest Kind of Man Lars Malmqvist
A Mineral Marriage JoyceWatson
A PT3 for Guy Fawkes Nairn Kennedy
A reminder of the far-flung origins of your identities in the language of geography and theoretical physics Simon Peter Eggertsen
Advice for Caving for Survival or Marriage as an Extreme Sport Jennie Owen
Alone Jenny Cave
Alterations Rachel Baum
August Bank Holiday Monday, 2021, in Clifton Park, Rotherham Matthew Paul
Beardsong Kevin Maynard
Becoming Rebecca Cohen
Before Gone Can Be Believed Jed Myers
Believe Me Yvonne Green
Black Bird-Shaped Hole Carolyn Gillespie
Blue Rice Helen Scadding
Blue Room in Jullunder Anjali Ramayya
Breaking News Luke Mansell
Broomhill Swimming Pool Nicola Warwick
Calm Down Dear. Everyone's Invited Jenny Swan
Christmas Day 2021 Anne Casey
College versus Knowledge Cro Page
Composing a reply on hearing of Grace's cancer Annie Abelman
Consider the Insane Spencer Clark French
Curfew Nancy Graham
Dissecting a Brain With You in '76 Emily Wills
Don Juan in Birmingham (1970) Alison Porter
Down in the Sewer Richard Taylor
Elegy for Fallen Trees Jane Newberry
Empire Flaminia Luck
Fear Nicola Henderson
Fishing in the Aral Sea Corrinna Toop
Folding the Sheets David Tas
For the screaming Toby Campion
Further Failings Erica Jane Morris
Going to the Dogs Judith Wozniak
Hair apparent Paul Fenn
Hands Jane Pauline Mann
Happy Days Pamela Scobie
He Crawls Through Words Jenny Mitchell
Heat Wave in Hiroshima August 2007 Jacqueline Everett
History of a field Di Slaney
How to Recommission a Heart Mary-Jane Holmes
I didn't recognise that pain is a warning Claire Burnett
If You Have to Ask How Much, You Can't Afford It Damen O'Brien
In the Empire of Lies Aidan Casey
Internet Yoga with Adrienne Louise Wilford
Inventory: Things You'll Find When She Dies HL R
It never happened Denise O'Hagan
Letter to my Bipolar Imogen Wade
Library stamps Matt Gilbert
Lola Sumeet Grover
Maggie Thatcher Watching the FA Cup Final, Royal Box, Wembley, 1987 Jonathan Edwards
Meet Me Anthony Powers
Moorgate Erica Jane Morris
Morning Machine Bruce Harris
Mother's Day: A Son's Message Denis Stidder
Mudlarks Gail Ferguson
My sister's wheelchair Robin Houghton
Mysteries Ken Evans
Name Dropping Nicolette Golding
Navigators Robin Muers
Nightmare in Nursery-land Sue Davies
Nonesuch Mike Barlow
Nuevo Laredo Nicholas Hogg
on this page there are frogs frogs frogs Jane Burn
Pigeon Men David Clemson
Pitch drop experiment Alison Binney
Playing Twister with Sean Bean Mark Fiddes
Powercut Denise O'Hagan
Putin and the stewardesses Derek Sellen
Rave On (after Van Morrison) John D Kelly
Round Island Light David Healey
Runaway Doreen Hinchliffe
Scrabble with my Aunt Jill Sharp
Shipping Forecast Ed Limb
Sightseeing Alan Elyshevitz
Sleeping Rough Calum Young
Smaller Than A Pollen Grain Will Darling
Stilettos and Cider Trisha Broomfield
Stratification Anastasia Prosvirnina
Subatomic Alan Elyshevitz
Suckered by the Narc Matthew Edgeworth
The Bibliophile Mystery David Smith
The Candidate Carole Martin
The Climbing Girl's Wedding Alex Toms
The Day I Walked on the Moom I Set Myself Up With Oats Robin Houghton
The Flood Water Mark Marisia Kucharski
The General Dabbles In Magical Realism Harry Bayman
The Invisible Hand is Arthritic Kathleen Winter
The Lost World Malcolm Orr
The Philosopher Hovers over the Void Ken Evans
The Shawl Jacqueline Woods
The sofa appears one morning out of nowhere Nicky Kippax
The things Dad left behind Jen Ross
This City (a reverse abecedarian in praise of Paris) Sue Burge
Trapdoor Spider John Rafferty
What Counts as a Light Luke Allan
Winter Olympics-Peace in record time Richard Harrison
With Slippers On John Scott

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