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 |