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2022 Short List

27 May 2022

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

In alphabetical order:

POEM BY
A reminder of the far-flung origins of your identities in the language of geography and theoretical physics Simon Peter Eggertsen
Before Gone Can Be Believed Jed Myers
Breaking News Luke Mansell
Christmas Day 2021 Anne Casey
Composing a reply on hearing of Grace's cancer Annie Abelman
Dissecting a Brain With You in '76 Emily Wills
Fishing in the Aral Sea Corrinna Toop
For the screaming Toby Campion
Further Failings Erica Jane Morris
Going to the Dogs Judith Wozniak
How to Recommission a Heart Mary -Jane Holmes
I didn't recognise that pain is a warning Claire Burnett
It never happened Denise O'Hagan
Letter to my Bipolar Imogen Wade
Lola Sumeet Grover
Moorgate Erica Jane Morris
Mother's Day: A Son's Message Denis Stidder
Mudlarks Gail Ferguson
My sister's wheelchair Robin Houghton
Mysteries Ken Evans
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
Putin and the stewardesses Derek Sellen
Round Island Light David Healey
Runaway Doreen Hinchliffe
Scrabble with my Aunt Jill Sharp
Sightseeing Alan Elyshevitz
The Bibliophile Mystery David Smith
The Day I Walked on the Moom I Set Myself Up With Oats Robin Houghton
The General Dabbles In Magical Realism Harry Bayman
This City (a reverse abecedarian in praise of Paris) Sue Burge
Trapdoor Spider John Rafferty
What Counts as a Light Luke Allan

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