Joanna Pocock

Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London via Montana. Her writing has appeared in The NationOrion MagazineThe Tahoma Literary ReviewThe Los Angeles TimesDistinctly MontanaLitroMslexia and 3:AM. She is currently writing a series of linked essays on extreme relationships between humans and their environments.

The Sparrow and the Twig

This is the discovery I make: we are all living liminal lives. Denying this is part of the madness. The only real thing is the liminality of life, the moments when we can inhabit fluidity, accept the threshold. We are just passing through, why should we expect anything other than being between places and times and states of being.

March 14, 2018

Stories Made of Rivers

The rivers Paul Parsons reclaims are not wild rivers, they are illusions of wild rivers. Just because a river flows does not mean it is not dead. We can and we should reclaim as much of the earth as we can even if it means dreaming ourselves back to a time very few people can remember, before history was written and stories were on paper.

November 22, 2017