This is the "Long List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2024. Congratulatons to the poets!
In alphabetical order:
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POEM |
BY |
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50 Ways to Leave Your Mother |
Gwen Owen |
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A Faltering Weather |
Leckraj Sharma Hurbhookun |
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A Gardener's World |
Simon Freeman |
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A Woman Alone in Verona |
Pamela Job |
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Adios Amor |
Scott Dalgarno |
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After a Birthday |
Christina Hutchins |
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After all that, it wasn't me dancing |
Tessa Foley |
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After she died |
Nia Broomhall |
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After the Collapse of the Russian Circus |
Matt Bryden |
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All clear |
Christopher M James |
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An orchestral trumpet player contemplates an explosion of syncopated panic |
Richard Side |
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Asterion |
Rod Whitworth |
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Audit of my paintbox |
John May |
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Best Before Date |
Carmina Masoliver |
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Blessing |
Anastasia Taylor-Lind |
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Blue Heron |
Stelios Mormoris |
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Bodies at the foot of Niagara Falls, drained dry, 1969 |
Sharon Holm |
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Brief |
Jendi Reiter |
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Bubbles |
Judith Allnatt |
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collateral damage |
Ian Gouge |
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Contronyms |
Isabelle Wei |
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Dancing Daughter |
Ian White |
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Dating in the Apocalypse Bunker |
Kirsten Mears |
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Daughters |
Kirsten Mears |
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Detail of an Uninvited Guest, 2005 |
Cormac Culkeen |
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Disappearing Villanelle |
Kurt Luchs |
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Dismantling the Light |
Christina Hutchins |
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Don't tell Dad |
Trystan Lewis |
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Driving lesson |
Bill Greenwell |
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Feeding Time at Gigrin Farm |
Harriet Goodwin |
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Fin de Siècle |
Elizabeth Coatman |
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First Days |
Marion Fanning |
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For All Mankind |
Nicholas Hogg |
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Gliding |
Mary-Jane Holmes |
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habitat/heralds |
Pamela Job |
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Hands in Mine |
Jessamyn Fairfield |
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Hild and the seabirds |
Jo Peters |
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Hillsborough: A Zuihitsu |
Angela Cheveau |
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How to Fold a Paper Aeroplane-How to Fold A Boy. |
Chris Sewart |
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I Picture You |
Sophia Argyris |
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I Tell Myself |
Rosie Bourgoin |
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If Icarus Didn't Fall. |
Cormac Culkeen |
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If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble |
Rachael Salmon |
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Immigration |
Sandeep Kumar Mishra |
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It |
Finn O'Brien |
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June Drop |
Martin Olsson |
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Knitted Octopus |
Mark Fiddes |
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later, in the afternoon |
Lucy Buchanan |
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Laundry |
Bill Greenwell |
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Legit |
Ken Evans |
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Like Life |
Marie-Louise Eyres |
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Livestock |
Chris Hardy |
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Love, distracted |
Denise O'Hagan |
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Man Up |
Judith Wozniak |
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Mango |
Caroline Smith |
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Moonnight, 31st August, 2023 |
Lindsay Walter |
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Morna |
Kurt Luchs |
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My Brother-in-law |
Peter Worthington |
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My father sketches out Matthias and Hannah's immediate ancestry, threads the space-time continuum |
Simon Peter Eggertsen |
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My Irish grandmother solves The Times cryptic crossword puzzle |
Tamiko Dooley |
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My mother tongue is a lonesome bastard |
Dragana Lazici |
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night |
Royston Tester |
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Old Fashioned in Purgatory |
Liz Kendall |
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On Ballard Down |
Matthew Schmolle |
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On being visited by the ghost of a friend who has recently taken his own life |
Steve Pottinger |
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On Day 142. A Message from Aaron, Joe. |
Violet White |
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One Hundred Words for Rain |
Julie Sheridan |
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Oyzis |
Vasiliki Albedo |
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Pale Winter Blue |
Rosalee Macfarlane |
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Persistence Theory |
Jed Myers |
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Pride, Like a Small Bird |
Susan Utting |
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Pulling Off Wings and Waiting for Flight |
Bruce Clark |
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Refugee Bandit Birthday Rag |
Jed Myers |
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Repair lines |
Maggie Mealy |
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Rhinestones on Kimberly Drive |
Christina Hutchins |
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Shrimp Saganaki |
Paul Stephenson |
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Six Children |
Sue Proffitt |
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Smoked Apples (for Ide) |
Bronagh Mallon |
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Song of the Pit Boy |
Lynne Jones |
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Song of the Pit Girl |
Lynne Jones |
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Sposa di guerra, 1945 |
Di Slaney |
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Spud |
Lucy Prescott |
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teenage running me |
Nick Allen |
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The Blues and Me |
Pamela Job |
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The tooth-puller of Lyon |
Caroline Price |
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The Whiskey Boat, 1924 |
Duncan Gillies MacLaurin |
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The Wirtschaftswunder (Economic Miracle) |
Ken Evans |
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The Wolf's Claw |
Ken Evans |
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To the Coppice of Razed Pines |
Vasiliki Albedo |
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Unicorn |
Elaine Jarvest Miller |
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Walking in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty While Waiting for the End of the World |
Elena Croitoru-Reed |
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Walking the Camino |
Sue McCormick |
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Watcherbird |
Elizabeth Rowe |
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What the Poet Said |
Indrani Perera |
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What3Words |
Stephanie Bird |
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Whenever someone tells me that my autism is a superpower |
Jeanette Burton |
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White Claw |
Heather DeLand |
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Who benefits from your suicide? |
Richard Tyrrell |
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Will anyone tell my story? |
Elizabeth Rowe |
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Yellow Bins |
Megan Cartwright |