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2021 Short List

28 May 2021

This is the "Short List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2021. 

In alphabetical order:

POEM BY
15 and 19 SIMON HARRIS
A stack of logs Patrick Yarker
Crescendo Jonathan Greenhause
Curious Expressions of a Mother’s Love Sue Chadd
Encomium for the Aunt Nans Laura Jenner
End Times A C Clarke
Guidelines Christian Ward
House Which Sank Rose Proudfoot
How he keeps her Nicola Warwick
How many traffic lights are in the picture? Ken Evans
How Not To Kill A Chicken Sharon Black
Jamie Vardy Scores Roy Marshall
Long Covid Diary, Days 24, 180, 75, 309 Ian Fielding
Lord of the Crows Jean Atkin
maybe it’s nothing at all Tessa Swackhammer
Mediaeval Sentences Kathleen Winter
Mustard Jim Green
Nape MICHAEL BROWN
Ninth Vision: Trees That Speak and Dream Judith Crispin
North Star Sue Wallace-Shaddad
Number withheld Craig Stephens
Polaroid of a Girl from Pennsylvania stacey forbes
Promises promises Brian Clark
Protest Jonathan Edwards
Scarborough Finals. 1978 Mark Fiddes
Shadowplay John Owen
Shelling Peas With My Grandmother in The Gorgiolands Sarah Wimbush
[sick] stemic Dean Gessie
Speaking of Trees stacey forbes
Student Teacher Carrie Bray
The Benefits of Education During Lockdown Nairn Kennedy
The Sound of John Lennon’s Voice on ‘Twist and Shout’ Jonathan Edwards
The watchmaker of Idlib Christopher James
the weekend after Ruth Beddow
Therapy Session Maeve Henry
Via Dolorosa is a 600 Metre Sprint Anne Rath
Watching my daughter draw a picture in a war zone Sue Davies
We Are David Stolton
Winter morning, Yorkshire, lockdown Robert Maslen
Zooming Joyce Schmid

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