Join us for an evening where filmmaker and anthropologist Adam Paaske talks to Anglo-British novelist Liz Jensen about her memoir ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’, the story of how a mother rebuilt herself, reoriented her life and rediscovered the enchantment of the living world. Liz Jensen’s son, a zoologist, conservationist and ecological activist, was twenty-five […]
‘The future we expected has changed shape.’ For the third entry in our Kinship With Beasts series, we bring you a story originally written for our special issue ARK, in which Liz Jensen tells of staggering personal loss in the midst of the world’s cascading crises. A writer and founding member of Extinction Rebellion’s Writers Rebel, her book about […]
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, 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 […]
Liz talks about her forthcoming book Your Wild and Precious Life.
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 […]
Liz writes on ‘The best books about psychic powers, consciousness, and the quest for the numinous‘. Read More
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
