28 May 2021
This is the "Short List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2021.
In alphabetical order:
| POEM | BY |
| 15 and 19 | SIMON HARRIS |
| A stack of logs | Patrick Yarker |
| Crescendo | Jonathan Greenhause |
| Curious Expressions of a Mother’s Love | Sue Chadd |
| Encomium for the Aunt Nans | Laura Jenner |
| End Times | A C Clarke |
| Guidelines | Christian Ward |
| House Which Sank | Rose Proudfoot |
| How he keeps her | Nicola Warwick |
| How many traffic lights are in the picture? | Ken Evans |
| How Not To Kill A Chicken | Sharon Black |
| Jamie Vardy Scores | Roy Marshall |
| Long Covid Diary, Days 24, 180, 75, 309 | Ian Fielding |
| Lord of the Crows | Jean Atkin |
| maybe it’s nothing at all | Tessa Swackhammer |
| Mediaeval Sentences | Kathleen Winter |
| Mustard | Jim Green |
| Nape | MICHAEL BROWN |
| Ninth Vision: Trees That Speak and Dream | Judith Crispin |
| North Star | Sue Wallace-Shaddad |
| Number withheld | Craig Stephens |
| Polaroid of a Girl from Pennsylvania | stacey forbes |
| Promises promises | Brian Clark |
| Protest | Jonathan Edwards |
| Scarborough Finals. 1978 | Mark Fiddes |
| Shadowplay | John Owen |
| Shelling Peas With My Grandmother in The Gorgiolands | Sarah Wimbush |
| [sick] stemic | Dean Gessie |
| Speaking of Trees | stacey forbes |
| Student Teacher | Carrie Bray |
| The Benefits of Education During Lockdown | Nairn Kennedy |
| The Sound of John Lennon’s Voice on ‘Twist and Shout’ | Jonathan Edwards |
| The watchmaker of Idlib | Christopher James |
| the weekend after | Ruth Beddow |
| Therapy Session | Maeve Henry |
| Via Dolorosa is a 600 Metre Sprint | Anne Rath |
| Watching my daughter draw a picture in a war zone | Sue Davies |
| We Are | David Stolton |
| Winter morning, Yorkshire, lockdown | Robert Maslen |
| Zooming | Joyce Schmid |