Entries by thyUibRR

The books which have inspired Liz to write Your Wild and Precious Life

My son’s death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it’s possible to find meaning, collectively and individually, in the loss of what we love. And in finding them, transform. Resilience is a seed that we all bear inside us. It germinates in emergencies. It sets down roots in astonishing […]

Dear Reader: a letter from Liz

Dear Reader, Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand That this, too, was a gift. A friend sent me those words by the poet Mary Oliver after my son Raphaël, a wildlife biologist and climate and environmental activist, died suddenly in February 2020. He was […]

Hear Liz on the Arts and Ecology podcast

Arts & Ecology is a brand new podcast about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. This week, we speak with writer Liz Jensen. Liz is the author of eight novels including the eco-thrillers The Rapture and The Uninvited. She is a founder member of Extinction Rebellion’s Writers Rebel, a […]

How Iggy Fox inspired me to take action

By Rachel White After experiencing burnout in 2018, I took time out from a stressful job and as part of my recovery, in June 2019 I travelled to France to walk the Camino Frances. After completing this five-week solo trek across northern Spain, I returned to the UK very much a changed person. I had […]

The write way to fight

WHEN WRITERS REBEL (WR) formed to become Extinction Rebellion’s (XR’s) literary wing in the summer of 2019, our aim was to put literature in the service of the threatened ecosystems that sustain us. One of our inspirations was the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book, The Great Derangement, which criticised literary fiction’s failure to address climate […]

Remembering Fox by Danae Ave, founder of XR Greece

I cannot even begin to tell you how much of an impact Fox had on me. Individuals like him drive the wheels of civilisation forward and for that you need a formidable spirit and a magnetic personality. I sensed that a lot of people I met from XR felt completely lost after his passing, so I know […]

Interview with Liz on the role of storytellers and the climate crisis

Liz was interviewed by Holly McElroy for Wales Art Review. From the article, ‘As part of Wales Climate Week 2020, creatives and academics came together via zoom to discuss ‘the role of storytellers in shaping the narrative and communal imagination towards action and engagement with the climate crisis?’ In this article Holly McElroy explores the […]

Grief in the time of Covid: some reflections on loss

What wisdom can you reach for when the unimaginable happens? On 6th February my apparently healthy 25-year old son Raphaël collapsed and died. Every week, all over the world, thousands of young lives like his are snatched away by sudden cardiac failure. Who knew? Not me. Before that, I was like most people. I never […]