29 May 2025
This is the "Long List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2025. Congratulatons to the poets!
In alphabetical order:
| Poem | By |
| A magical realist | Paul Francis |
| A Pair of Old Stills at the Musée d'Orsay | Richard Tithecott |
| A Rock, Three Seagulls, You | MV Williams |
| Abcedarian on Spring | Angela Cheveau |
| Adagio | Suzanna Fitzpatrick |
| Adrigole, Beara, Co Cork | Austin Crowley |
| Alchemical Wedding | Jane Thorp |
| Apocalypse on a Starry Night | Jenny McRobert |
| At the Corner of Your Eye, Fox | Eliza Mood |
| At the Last | Sue Proffitt |
| Azrael | Chris Hardy |
| bijou | Michia Pendarvis |
| Bomb | Natalie Matthews-Graves |
| Breadcrumbs | Sharon Black |
| Bulls | Wes Lee |
| Calling the lay roster through the canonical hours | Jean Atkin |
| Cassandra takes up meteorology | Steve Pottinger |
| Confirmation | Damen O'Brien |
| Contactless | David Chaplin |
| Cuernca | MV Williams |
| Daughters | Kristen Mears |
| Diagnosis | Shirley Cook |
| Disappearing places | Mary Gilonne |
| Estuary | Rosie Jackson |
| Evening's gown graced with celestial sequins | Jonathan Greenhause |
| Everything has its moment of beauty | Rachel Goodman |
| Everything Infinitely Perfect | Rosie Jackson |
| False Pastoral | Damen O'Brien |
| flatline | Paul McMahon |
| Formal Warning | Lauren Colley |
| Foxfur | Nairn Kennedy |
| From the train window in late July | Mel Tibbs |
| Goatscape | Tricia Dearborn |
| Golden Mole | Bex Hainsworth |
| Grandson in Bristol Museum | Penny Howarth |
| Grayling | Anthony Powers |
| Hawthorn | Ann Westgarth |
| Hazel | Kristen Mears |
| Hippocampus | Christopher M James |
| Home Work; | Diana Cant |
| How not to bath a cat | Lauren Colley |
| Hwæl | Jane Burn |
| I can't feel the war | Jed Myers |
| I watch my mother turn back into a seal | Sue Proffitt |
| I will take you to the sea | Sue Spiers |
| In the Shaft of the Fish and Birds | Eliza Mood |
| It's All in There | Magali Rosemoon |
| Jungle | Shirley Cook |
| Kathpuli | Sam Burns |
| La Leaper | Betty Lewin |
| Lament | Elizabeth Osmond |
| Learning the Mushroom | Gram Joel Davies |
| Making a Mark | Diana Cant |
| Matter | Kristen Mears |
| Migration | Richard Smith |
| Mine | Elizabeth Loudon |
| My last hour.. | Georgina Gabrian |
| Mysore Sickroom | Ruth Sharman |
| Neuron Count | Aidan Casey |
| News From the Front | Nairn Kennedy |
| Ok | Omar Musa |
| On earth something is always Burning | Clive McWilliam |
| One Hundred Words for Rain | Julie Sheridan |
| One Morning After I'd Finished Painting The Humber Bridge | Paul McMahon |
| OS Explorer 105 | Georgina Titmus |
| Outsiders | Mel Tibbs |
| Pa writes about Ma | Clare Sandling |
| Past Lives | Ben Verinder |
| Playmate of the Month | Sylvie Jane Lewis |
| Poem for voices | Ian Patterson |
| Poema Innominatam | Allan Lake |
| polacheck parody | Michia Pendarvis |
| Prayer for Jenny Pipes | Liz Bassett |
| Primary Colours | Wes Lee |
| Quilt | Kerry Darbishire |
| Rapunzel Brushes her Hair | Eliza Mood |
| Reclining Magnolia in a Norfolk Garden | Joseph Nutman |
| Royal Jelly | Özge Lena |
| Showtime | Tricia Dearborn |
| Somewhere on google street view | Adam Elms |
| Sous Rature in Sabah | Omar Musa |
| Spinner, dun | Ben Verinder |
| Splits | Julie Runacres |
| Still waters | Jennifer Syrkiewicz |
| Stone Soup | Julie Sheridan |
| Suffer the small | Dianne Williams |
| Take It | Paul McMahon |
| Talking to yourself is the first sign | Mike Barlow |
| The Age of Bronze | Michia Pendarvis |
| The Assignment | Damen O'Brien |
| The burning of both Houses | Clive McWilliam |
| The Cartographers Widow | Dorit d'Scarlett |
| The Catch | Megan Cartwright |
| The drowning | Tricia Dearborn |
| The first in a number of scenes where I am found weeping in Rome, July 1986 | Marie-Louise Eyres |
| The Function of Poetry | Robin Leiper |
| The ladies of Erskineville | Tug Dumbly |
| The Long Shadow of the Great Hunger | Jo Riglar |
| The marvelous fluvial moormaid | Lucy Manners |
| The Neighbours' Child | Alison Porter |
| The People That Know | Damen O'Brien |
| The Ragged Edge | Damen O'Brien |
| The Reaper or Defence of the Realm | Susannah Lash |
| The Reason the Goddess Persists | Michelle Dennehy |
| The Unquiet Skull of Theophilus Brome | Ben Verinder |
| The Year I Painted the Humber Bridge | Paul McMahon |
| Things you can't buy from Amazon | Beverley Hughes |
| Two women, at rest. | Nicola Warwick |
| Ukraine gallery 2022 | Liz Coatman |
| Walking Dartmoor with Dad on an Alzheimer morning | Mary Gilonne |
| War Artist | Nairn Kennedy |
| Ward Songs | Vivienne Tregenza |
| Way to Go | Richard Side |
| We Are Not In This Field | Anna Bowles |
| What You Remember of Her Most | Amy Rafferty |
| Where Something Comes Into the Way of the Falling Light | Gram Joel Davies |
| where the trenches were swollen | Lee Coleman |
| Whisky. Pebble. Fire. | Denis Vernon |
| You Can Leave Here | Victoria Spires |
| You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth | Harry Bayman |
| Yours Truly | Martin Parker |