Joanna Pocock
@joannapocock.bsky.social
• 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.
• 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 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
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A little taster of my book to come...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...
#nonfiction #placewriting #environmentalwriting #greyhound
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#nonfiction #placewriting #environmentalwriting #greyhound
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I was gripped by Grey Hound’s spare yet haunting prose. Pocock cast a shadow of longing and loss so visceral I held my breath. Ultimately a quiet ache lingered long after the final page.
Read an excerpt of the forthcoming GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock in @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
This Book Traces One Author’s Bus Trip Across America’s Troubled Highways
In her captivating new memoir, Joanna Pocock undertakes the journey from Detroit to LA by Greyhound bus, following in the footsteps of women writers who’ve chronicled epic road trips. Read an exclusiv...
www.anothermag.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I was gripped by Grey Hound’s spare yet haunting prose. Pocock cast a shadow of longing and loss so visceral I held my breath. Ultimately a quiet ache lingered long after the final page.
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
Very happy for Greyhound to be stocking-stuffer material!
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A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Very happy for Greyhound to be stocking-stuffer material!
🧦🎄🎁
🧦🎄🎁
Finished Jan Kerouac’s BABY DRIVER last night. What a book. When I wasn’t reading it, I was dreaming and thinking about it. One of those voices that inhabits you. I wrote in my diary that her sentences are like ‘sweet serotonin hits’. (1)
#fiction #autofiction #jankerouac #babydriver
#fiction #autofiction #jankerouac #babydriver
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Finished Jan Kerouac’s BABY DRIVER last night. What a book. When I wasn’t reading it, I was dreaming and thinking about it. One of those voices that inhabits you. I wrote in my diary that her sentences are like ‘sweet serotonin hits’. (1)
#fiction #autofiction #jankerouac #babydriver
#fiction #autofiction #jankerouac #babydriver
A window in Putney, this afternoon.
#flowers #reflections #windows #ahighstreetinlondon #london #putney
#flowers #reflections #windows #ahighstreetinlondon #london #putney
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A window in Putney, this afternoon.
#flowers #reflections #windows #ahighstreetinlondon #london #putney
#flowers #reflections #windows #ahighstreetinlondon #london #putney
Thank you to @zinovy_zinik for choosing GREYHOUND as a TLS @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025. I am truly chuffed:
Our contributors decide
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Our contributors decide
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https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/arts-books-roundups/tls-books-of-the-year-2025?utm_source=Sailthru
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November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Thank you to @zinovy_zinik for choosing GREYHOUND as a TLS @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025. I am truly chuffed:
Our contributors decide
t.co/kY57smmmBN
Our contributors decide
t.co/kY57smmmBN
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Read an excerpt of the forthcoming GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock in @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
This Book Traces One Author’s Bus Trip Across America’s Troubled Highways
In her captivating new memoir, Joanna Pocock undertakes the journey from Detroit to LA by Greyhound bus, following in the footsteps of women writers who’ve chronicled epic road trips. Read an exclusiv...
www.anothermag.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Read an excerpt of the forthcoming GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock in @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
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Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
Yesterday’s ’read-for-pleasure’ book haul. I have just started Jan Kerouac’s ‘Baby Driver’ with an introduction by Amanda Fortini and I am totally hooked.
#mirandajuly #christianeritter #chloearidjis #jankerouac
#mirandajuly #christianeritter #chloearidjis #jankerouac
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Yesterday’s ’read-for-pleasure’ book haul. I have just started Jan Kerouac’s ‘Baby Driver’ with an introduction by Amanda Fortini and I am totally hooked.
#mirandajuly #christianeritter #chloearidjis #jankerouac
#mirandajuly #christianeritter #chloearidjis #jankerouac
I am so grateful to Sophy Roberts for inviting me onto her podcast 'Gone to Timbuktu'. It's so rare for an interviewer to reflect your work back at you in a way that makers you see it differently. Sophy has this ability. (1)
#nonfiction #travel #memoir #ecology
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#nonfiction #travel #memoir #ecology
www.gonetotimbuktu.com/joanna-pococ...
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I am so grateful to Sophy Roberts for inviting me onto her podcast 'Gone to Timbuktu'. It's so rare for an interviewer to reflect your work back at you in a way that makers you see it differently. Sophy has this ability. (1)
#nonfiction #travel #memoir #ecology
www.gonetotimbuktu.com/joanna-pococ...
#nonfiction #travel #memoir #ecology
www.gonetotimbuktu.com/joanna-pococ...
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A friend just sent me this, saying, "isn't this the place you wrote about?"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder
Sonder guests have complained that they had to leave their accommodation as the firm files for a sudden bankruptcy.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A friend just sent me this, saying, "isn't this the place you wrote about?"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just finished this mysterious and devastating novel. The character of Molly Fawcett in Jean Stafford’s ‘The Mountain Lion’ (1947) is one of those strange, almost otherworldly characters who live inside you. She will be joining Edna Pontellier, Emma Bovary, Isabel Archer, Effi Briest, (1)
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just finished this mysterious and devastating novel. The character of Molly Fawcett in Jean Stafford’s ‘The Mountain Lion’ (1947) is one of those strange, almost otherworldly characters who live inside you. She will be joining Edna Pontellier, Emma Bovary, Isabel Archer, Effi Briest, (1)
Absolutely fantastic Pearly Kings and Queens spotted on my way to work this morning. They were off to the Lady Mayor’s Show today.
#london #pearlykings #pearlyqueens #costermongers #eastlondon #ladymayor
#london #pearlykings #pearlyqueens #costermongers #eastlondon #ladymayor
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Absolutely fantastic Pearly Kings and Queens spotted on my way to work this morning. They were off to the Lady Mayor’s Show today.
#london #pearlykings #pearlyqueens #costermongers #eastlondon #ladymayor
#london #pearlykings #pearlyqueens #costermongers #eastlondon #ladymayor
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Sane rubric:
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
Submissions are still open for writing and art on the subject of BEASTS for the next Dark Mountain publication.
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Bestiary – a call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 29 - Dark Mountain
A call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 29 – Bestiary, a book that has the animal at its heart
dark-mountain.net
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Sane rubric:
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
Submissions are still open for writing and art on the subject of BEASTS for the next Dark Mountain publication.
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Bestiary – a call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 29 - Dark Mountain
A call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 29 – Bestiary, a book that has the animal at its heart
dark-mountain.net
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Submissions are still open for writing and art on the subject of BEASTS for the next Dark Mountain publication.
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
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tonight!
Berlin book launch for Amateurs!
At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social
4 November
Spike Berlin
Goebenstr. 22
10783 Berlin
7-10pm
Tell your Berlin friends!
Reserve a free ticket here
spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...
At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social
4 November
Spike Berlin
Goebenstr. 22
10783 Berlin
7-10pm
Tell your Berlin friends!
Reserve a free ticket here
spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...
Book Launch: Joanna Walsh, “Amateurs”
On 4 November 2025 at Spike Berlin, former “Theory of Style” columnist Joanna Walsh will read from a philosophical history of the internet and digital creativity.
spikeartmagazine.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
tonight!
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On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
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Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound | Little Atoms
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November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
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We know it's true, but Joanna Pocock has the courage to journey into some of this country's most broken parts, where even the bus system is leaving passengers stranded, outside any social network. She notes, time and time again, how the erosion of support systems coincides with the proliferation...
August 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We know it's true, but Joanna Pocock has the courage to journey into some of this country's most broken parts, where even the bus system is leaving passengers stranded, outside any social network. She notes, time and time again, how the erosion of support systems coincides with the proliferation...
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Feed: "Vogue UK"
By: Joanna Pocock on Saturday, August 16, 2025
By: Joanna Pocock on Saturday, August 16, 2025
What I Learned From Taking Two Solo Road Trips Almost 20 Years Apart
Author Joanna Pocock travelled across the US by Greyhound bus by herself in 2006 – and then again 17 years later.
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August 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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By: Joanna Pocock on Saturday, August 16, 2025
By: Joanna Pocock on Saturday, August 16, 2025
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NBCC member Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed "Greyhound" by Joanna Pocock for The Washington Post:
buff.ly
September 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NBCC member Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed "Greyhound" by Joanna Pocock for The Washington Post:
Overheard as I walked through Wanstead today — older man talking to a younger one: “really it’s Robin you ought to talk to. He’s the real expert in concrete poetry.”
Kicking myself that I didn’t ask them who this Robin is!
#concretepoetry
(Photo is from my walk. Someone was giving away a painting.)
Kicking myself that I didn’t ask them who this Robin is!
#concretepoetry
(Photo is from my walk. Someone was giving away a painting.)
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Overheard as I walked through Wanstead today — older man talking to a younger one: “really it’s Robin you ought to talk to. He’s the real expert in concrete poetry.”
Kicking myself that I didn’t ask them who this Robin is!
#concretepoetry
(Photo is from my walk. Someone was giving away a painting.)
Kicking myself that I didn’t ask them who this Robin is!
#concretepoetry
(Photo is from my walk. Someone was giving away a painting.)