28 May 2021
This is the "Long List" of commended poems for The Plough Prize 2021.
In alphabetical order:
| POEM | BY |
| 15 and 19 | Simon Harris |
| A Journey of 25000 Ducks… | Tammy Swift-Adams |
| A Stack of Logs | Patrick Yarker |
| After the Fact | Ella Cunningham |
| And They'll Build a Forest | Niamh Dunne |
| Artefacts/White Horse Hill | Carole Martin |
| Autumn Leaf Fall Timetable | Liz Crosby |
| Autumn Roaring | Jeremy Punter |
| Book Worm | Rebecca Summerscales |
| Cargoes | Doreen Hinchliffe |
| Clean | Isobel Dixon |
| Confluence | Sara-Jane Arbury |
| Cough | Jo Dorling |
| Crescendo | Jonathan Greenhause |
| Curious Expressions of a Mother's Love | Sue Chadd |
| Downward Dogs | Tony Pipes |
| Dylan, Who never Grew Up | Helen Cook |
| Encomium for the Aunt Nans | Laura Jenner |
| End Times | A C Clarke |
| Footsteps | Tamiko Dooley |
| George | Diana Cant |
| Gerard at 35 | Sue Norton |
| Guidelines | Christian Ward |
| Hard R | Eri Okoye |
| Henry Gordon | Daniel Hewett |
| House Which Sank | Rose Proudfoot |
| How He Keeps Her | Nicola Warwick |
| How many Traffic Lights… | Ken Evans |
| How Not to Kill A Chicken | Sharon Black |
| Jab | Sam Henley Smith |
| Jamie Vardy Scores | Roy Marshall |
| Joshua's Bridge | Louise Green |
| Joy | Marco Eye |
| Late afternoon, Walden Pond | Elisabeth Murawski |
| Like Reindeer | Laura Foley |
| Lockdown | Roger West |
| Long Covid Diary | Ian Fielding |
| Lord of the Crows | Jean Atkin |
| Lost Voices | Tina Negus |
| Lute | Wendy Klein |
| Malentine | Geoffrey Forrester |
| Maybe It's Nothing at All | Tessa Swackhammer |
| Mediaeval Sentences | Kathleen Winter |
| Mistress Iron Whale | Justina Hart |
| Mustard | Jim Green |
| My Get Up and Go | Zanna Davidson |
| My Summer Job in Fulgoni's Ice-Cream Parlour | Judith Wozniak |
| Nape | Michael Brown |
| Navalny | Kathleen Winter |
| Ninth Vision | Judith Crispin |
| North Star | Sue Wallace-Shaddad |
| Number Witheld | Craig Stephens |
| On Mother's Day | Katharine Perry |
| One Of These days I'll Do Like David Hockney | Paul Stephenson |
| Photograph in the War Museum | Veronica Beedham |
| Polaroid of a Girl From Pennsylvania | stacey forbes |
| Pre-War Paris Apartment... | Jane Craven |
| Promises Promises | Brian Clark |
| Protest | Jonathan Edwards |
| Recycling, An Elegy | Tessa Hall |
| Rules on Engagement | Alexandra Citron |
| Sailing the High Seas With My Brother | Jenny McRobert |
| Salt | Jennifer Watson |
| Sand Martins | David Birch |
| Scarborough Finals 1978 | Mark Fiddes |
| Shadowplay | John Owen |
| Shelling Peas With My Grandmother | Sarah Wimbush |
| [Sick]stemic | Dean Gessie |
| Sliced Bread | Karina Vidler |
| Some Days You're the Seed, Some Days the Bird | Anne Casey |
| Sometimes people | John Foggin |
| Speaking of Trees | stacey forbes |
| Student Teacher | Carrie Bray |
| Teacher Teacher (for Mateo) | Sam Risebrow |
| That Year | Mary Gilonne |
| The Artist's Villanelle | Dayne Bond |
| The Ashes | Chris Winn |
| The Benefits of Education During Lockdown | Nairn Kennedy |
| The Big Top | Valerie Fry |
| The Carpenter and the Crocodiles | Steve Denehan |
| The Sea Lion | Ian Royce Chamberlain |
| The Sound of John Lennnon's… | Jonathan Edwards |
| The Viking | Robin Munby |
| The Village Pump | David Curtis |
| The watchmaker of Idlib | Christopher James |
| The Weekend After | Ruth Beddow |
| Therapy Session | Maeve Henry |
| There Were Birds | Tim Relf |
| This is Oliver | Sue Davies |
| This Time | Iora Dawes |
| Today is not Today | derek Sturch |
| Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance | Phil Coleman |
| Turner Explains Colour to Newton | Lesley Burt |
| Via Dolorosa is a 600 Metre Sprint | Anne Rath |
| Voyeurs | Claudine Toutoungi |
| Watching My daughter Draw… | Sue Davies |
| We Are | David Stolton |
| Winter Birth | Christopher Kerr |
| Winter Morning/Yorkshire Lockdown | Robert Maslen |
| Zooming | Joyce Schmid |