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The Bridport Prize 2009Poetry Report - Jackie Kay I was delighted to read the entries and the choice was difficult to make. There were wonderful poems in this year's entry, so various and so commendable in many ways. In the end, I chose poems which were memorable, and touched me, poems about the age-old, time-worn themes of love and loss, relationships and grief, time and change. Poems on those themes were entered this year, again and again. The poems that I've picked stood out because of their originality in point of view or language, or image. I was looking for something different, something that stayed with me, a different kind of clock to tell the time. I hope that everyone will enjoy this selection, various as it is, and find in each poem, an offering of something whether that be consolation, recognition or surprise. It was a pleasure to read them. And a great responsibility. I read all my favourite poems aloud to see how they lived off the page, and each of my choices make a good sound read as well as a paper one, the test of a good poem. I was startled by the standard. Jackie Kay
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