News at Eleven: Andrew Motion, who chaired this year's judges,

said [John] Burnside's winning collection, Black Cat Bone, was both "a very direct and a very subtle book." The former poet laureate added: "There's no doubting its big themes--of mortality, transience and various kinds of catastrophe--but they are handled in a way that rightly allows their menace to seem insidious as well as brutal. This makes the book one to linger over, as well as one to enjoy at first reading."

from The Guardian: John Burnside finally wins Forward poetry prize
then The Guardian: The Forward poetry prize at 20

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