28 May 2024
This is the "Short List" of highly commended poems for The Plough Prize 2024. Congratulatons to the poets!
In alphabetical order:
| POEM | BY |
| An orchestral trumpet player contemplates an explosion of syncopated panic | Richard Side |
| Blessing | Anastasia Taylor-Lind |
| Blue Heron | Stelios Mormoris |
| Brief | Jendi Reiter |
| Daughters | Kirsten Mears |
| Detail of an Uninvited Guest, 2005 | Cormac Culkeen |
| Dismantling the Light | Christina Hutchins |
| Don't tell Dad | Trystan Lewis |
| Fin de Siècle | Elizabeth Coatman |
| Gliding | Mary-Jane Holmes |
| habitat/heralds | Pamela Job |
| Hild and the seabirds | Jo Peters |
| Hillsborough: A Zuihitsu | Angela Cheveau |
| I Picture You | Sophia Argyris |
| Legit | Ken Evans |
| Like Life | Marie-Louise Eyres |
| Mango | Caroline Smith |
| Moonnight, 31st August, 2023 | Lindsay Walter |
| Morna | Kurt Luchs |
| My Irish grandmother solves The Times cryptic crossword puzzle | Tamiko Dooley |
| My mother tongue is a lonesome bastard | Dragana Lazici |
| On Ballard Down | Matthew Schmolle |
| On being visited by the ghost of a friend who has recently taken his own life | Steve Pottinger |
| On Day 142. A Message from Aaron, Joe. | Violet White |
| One Hundred Words for Rain | Julie Sheridan |
| Pale Winter Blue | Rosalee Macfarlane |
| Persistence Theory | Jed Myers |
| Pride, Like a Small Bird | Susan Utting |
| Refugee Bandit Birthday Rag | Jed Myers |
| Rhinestones on Kimberly Drive | Christina Hutchins |
| Six Children | Sue Proffitt |
| Smoked Apples (for Ide) | Bronagh Mallon |
| Song of the Pit Girl | Lynne Jones |
| Sposa di guerra, 1945 | Di Slaney |
| teenage running me | Nick Allen |
| The Wirtschaftswunder (Economic Miracle) | Ken Evans |
| The Wolf's Claw | Ken Evans |
| What3Words | Stephanie Bird |
| Yellow Bins | Megan Cartwright |