Brink by Jo Burns #PBSChristmas This is a work of

This is a work of deep and grand importance that has offered the poets the gift of a noble and urgent subject

won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award

While taste and smell dominate

portraying a little girl and her father

Brink by Jo Burns #PBSChristmas This is a work ofBrink 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