Fitzcarraldo Editions Archive: Joanna Pocock in conversation with Samantha Walton

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Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender and Greyhound, speaks to Samantha Walton, academic and author of Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure, about her writing to date. The conversation touches on resistance to nostalgia in nature writing, mapping internal journeys onto landscape and the invention of ‘wilderness’ in American literature. Listen here.

Recorded at Young Space in November 2025. Editing by Frankie Wells. Music by Kwes Darko.