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Joanna Pocock

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• Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025). • Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc... • Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · Nov 18

A little taster of my book to come...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...

#nonfiction #placewriting #environmentalwriting #greyhound

A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA

Gone are the small, clean, cheap motels and public spaces where anyone can find a place to nurse a cup of coffee. Yet the camaraderie of the Greyhound is hanging on

www.theguardian.com

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 9h

Right?!

Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 9h

Epping Forest magic this afternoon with views over London from Loughton.

#eppingforest #autumn #light #treebathing #london

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 19h

French woman trying to make sense of the rise of technology, the presence of war and the desire within her to raise daughters and be fully human and attentive. This one kept me up until the wee hours. (2)

#simonedebeauvoir #theimageofher #literarureintranslation #fiction

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 19h

This book! I read Simone de Beauvoir’s THE IMAGE OF HER in one sitting. Absolutely phenomenal. Translated beautifully by @lauren_elkin_
Imagine some of the psychological and linguistic slippages of Virginia Woolf with the acuity of de Beauvoir as she describes the inner workings of a bourgeois (1)

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to the Birmingham Literature Festival for inviting me to talk about GREYHOUND. I could have chatted to Liz Berry for hours! Go if you can! There are some fantastic events happening there.

#BLF25 #birmingham #litfest #greyhound #nonfiction #booktour

Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 1d

Birmingham, this afternoon.

#birmingham #merrygoround

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 1d

Some interesting overlaps in Birmingham this afternoon.

#birmingham #unitedkingdom

Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say, the toilets on the Chiltern Railways train from Birmingham to London are quite something.

#britishtrains #chilternrailways #birmingham #london #traintravel

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 2d

By ‘next one’, I mean ‘next book’! 📚📚📚

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 2d

Ha. Yes, inhalation did get mentioned!
All good... off to Birmingham tomorrow for the Lit Fest there. Doing a panel with another author about the idea of 'pilgrimage'. Really looking forward to it!
(But I do need to get onto the next one!)

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 2d

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Our love for whales 🤝 your love for whales

The submission window for our Summer 2026 issue about whales and other cetaceans is open! Guidelines and where to pitch are all at the link below.
orionmagazine.org/submission-g...

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 3d

Leytonstone.

#leytonstone #windows #reflections #autumn

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 3d

I have just started a 2026 diary to keep me on track for my teaching and for other events... yours is now in there in indelible PEN!

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 3d

As soon as you know the deets, let me know. I don't want to miss this!

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 3d

Indie publishing is the ecological niche where literature survives. This is especially true of the short story. @saltpublishing.com needs help to stay healthy in tough times. Can you pitch in - or share this skeet?

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 3d

You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'.
I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...

Joseph Szymanski / Photographer @josephszymanski.com · 4d

Just finished 'Greyhound' by @joannapocock.bsky.social - Go get a copy. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Beautiful book...

Greyhound

Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives wh…

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely an evening game. So, it was April 9. Mystery solved.

Very glad you enjoyed the ride that is GREYHOUND. 🙏

Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 4d

I think it may have been April 9, 2006 (if that's possible). My diary says they were playing the Cubs in Chicago and the previous night the Cardinals had played in St Louis...

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for reading it! So, did Juan Encarnación not hit a home run in spring 2006? That's what I wrote in my journal in St Louis, but very possible I got it wrong!

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 4d

My dyslexic brain saw 'Make Hornay' which is an interesting twist.

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 4d

Ha. Yes. It’s a good one.

Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 5d

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angela hudson jones @angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 5d

@bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow

might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir

bookshop.org/p/books/grey...

book cover:
joanna pocock
greyhound

image is a black and white photograph of a roadside motel.

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, thank you. 🙏

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. That one is quite something.