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Irish-Canadian writer and filmmaker
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Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer and filmmaker, best known for her 2019 book length essay, Surrender.

Career

In 2010, Pocock produced the documentary Road to Las Vegas.

Pocock worked as a Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of the Arts, London and as a freelance copy-editor for Verso Books.

In 2018, Pocock won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her book length essay Surrender. The book, which detailed Pocock's time living in the American West as well as reflections on the community and land, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK and House of Anansi Press in Canada and the US.

Pocock has continued to write essays mixing memoir with observations on culture, class and nature.

References

  1. "Joanna Pocock". LinkedIn. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  2. "Surrender". Fitzcarraldo Editions. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  3. "Surrender by Joanna Pocock: toes the thin line between beauty and horror wonderfully". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  4. Pocock, Joanna. "A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA". Retrieved 22 November 2023.


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