The 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist

♦ “January 27, 2022” by Denise Blinn

♦ “Birth Crasher” by Leesa Dean

♦ “Rebellion Box” by Hollay Ghadery

♦ “Testimony, March 3 2011” and “Mother’s Day, Kigeme Refugee camp” by Anne Hopkinson

♦ “Bone November” by Sandra Kasturi

♦ “On Your Adult Baptism, for Luke” by Tom Konyndyk

♦ “Tours” by Annick MacAskill

♦ “Snug Harbour” by Bruce Madole

♦ “Fugue” by Callista Markotich

♦ “On Seeing the Ice Tongs at the Billings Estate” by Karen Massey

♦ “Kintsugi, The Golden Repair” by Colin Morton

♦ “Agincourt, 1415” by Finley Mullally

♦ “The Banksy of Sonnets” by Heidi von Palleske

♦ “Three Feelings Walk Into a Bar” by Kerrie Penney

♦ “She sits down to write the history of rain and suddenly the wild fall into order” and “Between worlds” by Pamela Porter

♦ “Dwelling” by Hannah Senicar

♦ “The Body Translates an Old Story” by Grace Vermeer

♦ “Ancestors” by Susan Vernon

♦ “It Was a Beautiful Day in Prospect Park” and “Intersection” by Myna Wallin

♦ “Adept” by Elana Wolff

♦ “Black Angus” by Terence Young