26 May 2023
This is the "Short List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2023. Congratulatons to the poets!
In alphabetical order:
| POEM | BY |
| A Beginner’s Guide to Wuthering Heights | Jeanette Burton |
| A Blue and Yellow Scarf | Margaret Eddershaw |
| A Mum Watches Table Tennis (Commonwealth Games) | Helen Kay |
| Buon Appetito | Ian Royce Chamberlain |
| Class of Christmas '72 | Mick Wood |
| Consider the Birds | Jock Stein |
| Doña Maria | Irina Husti-Radulet |
| Dress up routine | Rebecca Chu |
| Event Horizon | Matt Hohner |
| Fourth Wall | David Olsen |
| General Zhao addresses his Daughter | Keith Chandler |
| Green | Jenny Mitchell |
| I do not understand quantum physics until I see your dancing | Rosie Garland |
| Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness | Philip Dunn |
| Just when you get yourself out of one labyrinth | Deborah Harvey |
| Medea briefs her PR Officer | Alex Toms |
| Monsieur Leonard considers mushrooms | Alex Toms |
| My grandmother's recipes | Mary Mulholland |
| Noise | David Healey |
| Pegasus Rising | Jenny McRobert |
| Poem in which my dad plays pool in a Spanish bar | Jeanette Burton |
| Preparing Sunday Lunch with Nan-Nan’s Ghost | Kathryn Bevis |
| Radicalise me | John Ling |
| Shepherd | Kathy Miles |
| Sistren | Sharon Black |
| summit | Candy Neubert |
| Swimming to America | Christopher James |
| T.J. Eckleburg | Kristen Mears |
| Talking to a dragonfly in Great Ormond Street Hospital | Jenny McRobert |
| Tennis Lesson | Imogen Wade |
| The Inbetweenies | Ian Nimmo-White |
| The Litter-Pickers | Frances Corkey Thompson |
| The orphan's pantoum | Denise O'Hagan |
| The Pot with a Jaguar Handle | Mark Fiddes |
| The Tongue of War | Ozge Lena |
| The Unreeving | Matt Hohner |
| Trinidad Weeps | John Baldwin |
| Walking back from Praia da Marinha | Ruth Sharman |
| Whaleness | Kelly Davis |
| What became of Judy at Chase | Mara Bergman |