29 May 2025
This is the "Short List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2025. Congratulatons to the poets!
In alphabetical order:
| Poem | Poet |
| Abcedarian on Spring: The Interior of an Artist's Atelier | Angela Cheveau |
| Azrael | Chris Hardy |
| Cassandra takes up meteorology | Steve Pottinger |
| Everything Infinitely Perfect | Rosie Jackson |
| False Pastoral | Damen O'Brien |
| Goatscape | Tricia Dearborn |
| Home Work | Diana Cant |
| How not to bath a cat | Lauren Colley |
| Hwael | Jane Burn |
| Mine | Elizabeth Loudon |
| Mysore Sickroom | Ruth Sharman |
| Neuron Count | Aidan Casey |
| On earth something is always Burning | Clive McWilliam |
| Past lives | Ben Verinder |
| Playmate of the Month | Sylvie Jane Lewis |
| Poem for voices | Ian Patterson |
| Prayer for Jenny Pipes | Liz Bassett |
| Primary Colours | Wes Lee |
| Reclining Magnolia in a Norfolk Garden | Joseph Nutman |
| Showtime | Tricia Dearborn |
| Somewhere On Google Street View | Adam Elms |
| Spinner, dun | Ben Verinder |
| Take It | Paul McMahon |
| Talking to yourself is the first sign | Mike Barlow |
| The Assignment | Damen O'Brien |
| The Burning of both Houses | Clive McWilliam |
| 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 Neighbours' Child | Alison Porter |
| The People That Know | 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 |
| Things you can't buy from Amazon | Beverley Hughes |
| Ukraine gallery 2022 | Liz Coatman |
| Walking Dartmoor with Dad on an Alzheimer morning | Mary Gilonne |
| where the trenches were swollen | Lee Coleman |
| You Can Leave Here | Victoria Spires |
| Yours Truly | Martin Parker |