Brink by Jo Burns #Bloodaxebooks Wiltshire and Patmos and describes

Wiltshire and Patmos and describes the poet's - possibly futile - search for spiritual truth

shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize

 London Magazine

’ – Peter Sansom

he fuses earthly and divine love with an intense constancy as momentously productive as Dante's courtly adoration for Beatrice

Brink by Jo Burns #Bloodaxebooks Wiltshire and Patmos and describesBrink is a work that bears witness to a world hovering on the edge of crisis, yet sees hope in the compassion and empathy in personal relationships that forge the unbreakable bonds that bind us. From her vantage point of the post truth, pandemic afflicted present, Jo Burns turns her fierce analytical powers to the impact of propaganda and conspiracy theories on public and private discourse. Her unwavering eye roves over the bloody history of the 20th