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 |