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.
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
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
www.gonetotimbuktu.com/joanna-pococ...
#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
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
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.)
Distressed loudspeaker at Leytonstone station. An almost Kleinian blue.
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Distressed loudspeaker at Leytonstone station. An almost Kleinian blue.
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
There is something sweetly reassuring in the evergreen, unchanging nature of bathroom graffiti.
#berlin #bars #bathroomgraffiti #toilethumour
#berlin #bars #bathroomgraffiti #toilethumour
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There is something sweetly reassuring in the evergreen, unchanging nature of bathroom graffiti.
#berlin #bars #bathroomgraffiti #toilethumour
#berlin #bars #bathroomgraffiti #toilethumour
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s been a long day. Grateful for the tiny Bohemian enclaves where you can still pay with cash, drink wine & coffee & smoke cigarettes & remind yourself that there is a real analogue world to be inhabited full of caring, beautiful people.
#berlin #coffee #cigarettes #wine #analoguepleasures
#berlin #coffee #cigarettes #wine #analoguepleasures
October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s been a long day. Grateful for the tiny Bohemian enclaves where you can still pay with cash, drink wine & coffee & smoke cigarettes & remind yourself that there is a real analogue world to be inhabited full of caring, beautiful people.
#berlin #coffee #cigarettes #wine #analoguepleasures
#berlin #coffee #cigarettes #wine #analoguepleasures
Blumen in the main Neukölln hospital. I can’t imagine such a pretty flower shop in a British hospital.
#germanhospitals #berlin #blumen #flowers
#germanhospitals #berlin #blumen #flowers
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Blumen in the main Neukölln hospital. I can’t imagine such a pretty flower shop in a British hospital.
#germanhospitals #berlin #blumen #flowers
#germanhospitals #berlin #blumen #flowers
The World of Chickpea in Berlin really is exceptionally devoted to their main ingredient.
#chickpeas #hummus #theworldofchickpea #berlin
#chickpeas #hummus #theworldofchickpea #berlin
October 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The World of Chickpea in Berlin really is exceptionally devoted to their main ingredient.
#chickpeas #hummus #theworldofchickpea #berlin
#chickpeas #hummus #theworldofchickpea #berlin
Really bonkers Hinrich Baller building in Kreutzberg. Designed 1982-1984 as part of Berlin’s Critical Reconstruction.
#architecture #kreutzberg #berlin #hinrichballer #criticalreconstruction
#architecture #kreutzberg #berlin #hinrichballer #criticalreconstruction
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Really bonkers Hinrich Baller building in Kreutzberg. Designed 1982-1984 as part of Berlin’s Critical Reconstruction.
#architecture #kreutzberg #berlin #hinrichballer #criticalreconstruction
#architecture #kreutzberg #berlin #hinrichballer #criticalreconstruction
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It really never gets old, this walking past a shop and seeing your book there out in the wild. Great to discover She Said Books in Berlin. A wonderful spot bursting with fantastic books.
#greyhound #shesaidbooks #berlin #books #neukölln
#greyhound #shesaidbooks #berlin #books #neukölln
October 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It really never gets old, this walking past a shop and seeing your book there out in the wild. Great to discover She Said Books in Berlin. A wonderful spot bursting with fantastic books.
#greyhound #shesaidbooks #berlin #books #neukölln
#greyhound #shesaidbooks #berlin #books #neukölln
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The original no-slip surface on a stile near Stroud, Gloucestershire. Old-school DIY health and safety.
#ingenuity #noslip #healthandsafety
#ingenuity #noslip #healthandsafety
October 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The original no-slip surface on a stile near Stroud, Gloucestershire. Old-school DIY health and safety.
#ingenuity #noslip #healthandsafety
#ingenuity #noslip #healthandsafety
My bathroom at Hawkwood this morning channeling Gwen John’s studio in Paris.
#residentialwritingretreats #hawkwood #stroud #teachingwriting #nonfiction
#residentialwritingretreats #hawkwood #stroud #teachingwriting #nonfiction
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My bathroom at Hawkwood this morning channeling Gwen John’s studio in Paris.
#residentialwritingretreats #hawkwood #stroud #teachingwriting #nonfiction
#residentialwritingretreats #hawkwood #stroud #teachingwriting #nonfiction