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.”

There you are just working away at your desk, when you look up and out your window and see…. #sunset #london #skies #winter

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...

tonight!

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...

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...

Feed: "Vogue UK" By: Joanna Pocock on Saturday, August 16, 2025

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.)

Distressed loudspeaker at Leytonstone station. An almost Kleinian blue. #londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint

📸Photographs are like writing - they’re all about editing and what you choose to leave out! Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Come and listen👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

This is such a good piece of news. 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

A good news spider story from the BBC today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love this cover from de Beauvoir’s reissue of America Day by Day As @joannapocock.bsky.social says, ‘it’s full of gossip’ Joanna mentions it in her book GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Which we spoke about on RP (doing some bonus content to release tomorrow!)

There is something sweetly reassuring in the evergreen, unchanging nature of bathroom graffiti. #berlin #bars #bathroomgraffiti #toilethumour

Berlin airport. #berlin #berlinairport #art

Berlin airport diptych. #berlin #berlinairport #greyskies #artversusreality

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

Blumen in the main Neukölln hospital. I can’t imagine such a pretty flower shop in a British hospital. #germanhospitals #berlin #blumen #flowers

The World of Chickpea in Berlin really is exceptionally devoted to their main ingredient. #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

Even the garbage has layers of depth in Berlin. #garbage #neukölln #berlin #patricksuskind

Berlin diptych this morgen. #berlin #cafes #neukölln #morning #coffee #autumn

Cafe, Neukölln. #cafe #typography #berlin #neukölln #fonts #design

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

A walk to and a visit to a Hospital in Neukölln. #berlin #walls #hospitalstilllife

Airport bus into a very autumnal Berlin. #autumn #berlin #familyvisits

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The original no-slip surface on a stile near Stroud, Gloucestershire. Old-school DIY health and safety. #ingenuity #noslip #healthandsafety

My bathroom at Hawkwood this morning channeling Gwen John’s studio in Paris. #residentialwritingretreats #hawkwood #stroud #teachingwriting #nonfiction

What a truly magnificent weekend at @hawkwood_cft where Nick Hunt and I facilitated an amazing group of nature and travel writers. I am always really humbled by the fact that people are just so generous and care so much about the planet and each other. (1)

A friend just sent me this from the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world… #litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition

Escribo un artículo de opinión sobre el gran libro de @joannapocock.bsky.social con dos viajes en autobús en EEUU, y la advertencia de fondo de los riesgos de la tecnología sin pensar suficiente en los efectos indeseables. www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona...

'Lyrical and clear-eyed at once, Pocock has reinvented the road-trip genre for a new age...' @washingtonpost.com reviews GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Abandoned Uranium Refinery, near Tuba City, Navajo Nation, August, 1982 • Joel Sternfeld ...I just finished reading Greyhound: A Memoir by Joanna Pocock and this is a fitting image for the final few chapters....

What a lovely pairing. #wednesdaytreat

'The Arctic Belongs to Itself', Joyce Wieland, 1973. I recently saw a fantastic retrospective of her work at the AGO. I always thought that the ceiling in the Cameron House had been painted by her, but no one can corroborate this. Any Toronto people on here remember this? #Toronto #JoyceWieland

Did u know?Since we've been making bee hotels,our diversity of solitary bees has increased 10-fold.This is a mud nesting brick for Hairy Footed Flower bees.Recipe:cricket pitch loam,sand,straw. Poke holes. 2 feet off the ground,south facing. Plant Pulmonaria-they LOVE it.How fab is the male?! 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝

Biodegradable bamboo breakthrough. Scientists have developed a tough new bamboo-based plastic that biodegrades in 50 days. The new material matches the strength of engineering plastics used in cars and appliances while retaining 90% of its durability after recycling.  https://f.mtr.cool/qhdfycbhxm

Watching this squirrel pig out on rosehips means I now have Can’s ‘hey you, you’re losing, you’re losing your vitamin C’ running through my head. That’s a hard one to dislodge. #squirrels #rosehips #vitaminC #can #earworms #krautrock

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Epping Forest magic this afternoon with views over London from Loughton. #eppingforest #autumn #light #treebathing #london

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)

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

Birmingham, this afternoon. #birmingham #merrygoround

Some interesting overlaps in Birmingham this afternoon. #birmingham #unitedkingdom

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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Leytonstone. #leytonstone #windows #reflections #autumn

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?