The poetry of ploughing: National Ploughing Championship patrons to select favourite works

Visitors to the National Ploughing Championship this year will face a new challenge: To select their favourite farming poem.

Love of agriculture and the land has been a favourite theme for poets. In recent times Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney, for example, have written passionately about farming.

Now ‘A Poem for the Ploughing’ is being launched by the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin to find out what verses are the most evocative of life on the land.