Lucy Jones
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Author/journalist. MATRESCENCE ~ LOSING EDEN ~ THE NATURE SEED ~ FOXES UNEARTHED. Trying to figure out a way to put a pig on the tracks (U.K.Le.G).
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A wild pleasure to be profiled by
@anna_russell
for The New Yorker.
On Matrescence:
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Being in France really brings home how depleted Britain is of wildlife. Within 24 hours I'd seen scores of plovers, martins and stilts, a violet carpenter bee, kestrels, a weasel, a hummingbird hawk moth, swallowtails, insects of shapes I've never seen before.🧵 1/8
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Did you know how exquisite springtails are? And they are EVERYWHERE. Look at these amazing photographs by
@mesofauna
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A winter walk for the Guardian.
On slime moulds, circles, moss, lichen, colour, phytoncides, air, the urge of the world.
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I am indescribably delighted that MATRESCENCE is on the longlist for the inaugural
@WomensPrize
for Non-Fiction. Thank you so much to the judges and
#womensprize
team. What a spectacular list of writing to be part of.
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I'm so very excited to show you the cover of MATRESCENCE - my next book, published in June by
@PenguinUKBooks
- designed by the inimitable
@_TomEtherington
. I love the polyphony of it, the visceral red, the plurality, those colours!
You can preorder here
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This is one of the reasons I support a Right to Roam and extended CRoW in England. The way we treat non-human life and consider land in Britain clearly isn't working. Species are crashing out. Harmful land practices are decimating populations.
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Moths on the cashpoint; glowworms in the garden. No joke, I have seen 1000s of snails. Abundances of life everywhere. The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, but...
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The UK only has 50% of its non-human life remaining. In Finland, which has its Jokamiehen oikeudet (freedom to roam), it is 88.6%. Even after the Dasgupta review, government and councils have an ignobly sluggish approach to biodiversity collapse.
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...the reality is hidden from the majority of people through the 'extinction of experience' (Pyle) of the living world. I feel lucky if I see one butterfly. Here, I've seen hundreds.
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As
@nickhayesillus1
@guyshrubsole
say,
@Right_2Roam
is about protection of nature and public health. Footpaths are great, but not enough. Our land ethic is broken, and failed, and it needs to change.
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But with 92% of land off limits, and 97% of rivers, by law of trespass, how would we know? With proper protections for vulnerable areas built in, people need the freedom to respectfully access the land *without fear* to know wider kin and peaceful restorative places..
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I’ve just finished a draft of my next book. It’s about metamorphosis and interdependence, power and domination, matrescence and love, anger and volcanos, ecology and space, capital and mycelium, misogyny and time. It will be out next year. More news to come.
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This is a book about the head-fuck of motherhood. It's about symbiosis and misogyny and interdependence. It's about the clash of care-giving with neoliberal capitalism. It's about the violence of the institution of intensive motherhood. It's about bodies and ecologies and power.
I'm so very excited to show you the cover of MATRESCENCE - my next book, published in June by
@PenguinUKBooks
- designed by the inimitable
@_TomEtherington
. I love the polyphony of it, the visceral red, the plurality, those colours!
You can preorder here
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I would’ve thought this moth was black arches but it’s 3cm or so long. Can anyone help id? (In my town centre garden, no oak wood nearby)
@savebutterflies
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...and to understand how bad the ecological situation is and counter shifting baseline syndrome.
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A delight to deep dive into ***slime moulds*** for an essay with
@emergence_zine
With stunning images by Barry Webb and thanks to epic editors
@SeanaQuinn
@ChelseaScudder
Michelle Moore and Art Director
@hannahbmerriman
for making it so beautiful.
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Matrescence paperback is out today. Thanks to all readers x
The paperback of Matrescence is here! Out June 6. It looks mint.
Details/preorder:
Upcoming events: Hay June 1, Basingstoke June 29, public lecture at LSE in July (details tc), Matrescence festival in Exeter,
@endoftheroad
.
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A little piece in the Guardian. Come for a walk with me....
The winter world may seem gloomy – but look closely, and you’ll see nature casting a spell | Lucy Jones
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MATRESCENCE is published today.
Thanks to everyone at
@AllenLaneBooks
, my editor Chloe Currens and agent
@WoollardJessica
and early readers and reviewers.
Let’s go!
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I'm in
@thetimes
today talking about matrescence, the science of the parental brain, the outdated misnomer of "baby brain", the existential crisis of motherhood
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MATRESCENCE is truly launched. One month old. Thank you to early readers, reviewers, book-sellers. Events upcoming and US & other 🌏 editions in the works. More info here:
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I've an article about loneliness and new motherhood in the
@Guardian
today. Many thanks to
@ruthndwrites
for talking to me about her important research, and maestra editor
@jenny_stevens
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The launch of the APPG Birth Trauma Inquiry this evening with
@RosieDuffield1
@theodoraclarke
and a response from
@VictoriaAtkins
I hope the recommendations are made swiftly. Major investment needed and also change that doesn’t cost any money at all.
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Matrescence is out in the US today!
🎉📚 New Book Tuesday! 📚🎉 📖 MATRESCENCE by Lucy Jones: Explore the journey of becoming a mother. 📖 WHALE FALL by Elizabeth O'Connor: Navigate a remote Welsh island community. 📖 MOTHER OF ALL THINGS by Alexis Landau: Dive into past and present amidst ancient rites.
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A column for the Guardian:
The new science of motherhood shows it’s far more transformative than western culture allows
With reference to the work of
@DianaBianchiMD
, Elseline Hoekzema, Erika Barba-Müller
@JodiPawluski
and Pilyoung Kim.
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Here’s a 🧵 i’ll add to of a few texts that have helped me make some sense of
#matrescence
/ becoming a mother within the modern institution of motherhood within this world. They’ve each fed my next book in different ways. Please add suggestions if u like: First, the classics.
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I’m lucky to have an early copy of this brilliant anthology, edited by
@LouiseKenward
and out with
@WeAreFootnote
in October. An epic list of contributors >>
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I'll be speaking about my new book Matrescence and mothering and art-making at
@Tate
Modern Lates on Friday March 31. Thrilled to be talking with
@FerrenGipson
. The whole programme look magical. Free but ticketed >>
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Field trips don’t get much better than this. A day out with the photographer and slime mould legend Barry Webb hunting slime moulds such as these (first two images quite obv 📸Barry).
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Special times at
@hayfestival
with
@DrPragyaAgarwal
@cloverstroud
and Candice Brathwaite talking birth, intersectionality and maternity, economics of motherhood, perinatal loneliness, taboo, art, and meeting irl…😭💫💫ROBIN WALL KIMMERER💫💫😭
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The paperback of Matrescence is here! Out June 6. It looks mint.
Details/preorder:
Upcoming events: Hay June 1, Basingstoke June 29, public lecture at LSE in July (details tc), Matrescence festival in Exeter,
@endoftheroad
.
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Matrescence in the Financial Times and Guardian. Maybe the first ever record of the word in the former! The book will be out in June. Eek. More info to come
#Matrescence
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If anyone wants to learn more about Myxomycetes or slime mould, highly recommend this book by Sarah Lloyd.
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How is this extreme cruelty not headline news?
The tragedy of Rianna and baby Aisha: why a teenager gave birth all alone in a prison cell
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Many parents struggle to find affordable childcare in the early years.
@PregnantScrewed
found that 76% of mothers who pay for childcare said it doesn’t make sense to work. Almost a 3rd of rely on debt. This 70s Hackney Flashers strip (on show
@Tate
) is still relevant. 7/15
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What a paragraph. Excellent Diary in
@LRB
about birth and being a body in history by
@ErinMaglaque
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Not sure why Springwatch haven’t asked me on the show yet 😅 but seriously rose hips raw taste amazing
#earthconnection
#everydaynature
#forestschoolforadults
#mightdelete
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Thank you
@Tate
and amazing
@ferrengipson
for an epic event and the chance to talk about Matrescence, play, microchimerism, dilated cervixes, constraint and art, and the hidden abode of care work. Could’ve talked to Ferren for hours.
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Motherhood as political experience. A thread of a few parts from a recent
@NewStatesman
piece. (The Margaret image is from Greenham Common and the Re/Sisters at the Barbican. We can learn a lot about a society’s values by looking at how it treats new mothers and babies...1/15
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Tomorrow is the online launch of Matrescence
@5x15stories
with
@amy_may
and you can sign up on the link below 🪼can’t wait to get into it with one of my favourite writers 🪐🕸️🕷️🪳🖤🪨🐍
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LOSING EDEN was translated into Portuguese by Marta Pinho and it's just been published by Temas e Debates as Perder o Paraíso. Isn't the cover lush?
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Look out for Matrescence mobiles in a few fantastic independent book shops if you’re popping in:
@Bookishcrick
in Abergavenny (pictured),
@LaBiblioteka
in Sheffield,
@Feminist_Books_
in Brighton, The Margate Bookshop and
@bookhaus2
in Bristol. Thank you for selling the book 🖤
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@MartynPitman
Wow. That explains quite a bit about my experience. Shocking lack of information 😞
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Thank you so much for this award 🙏🏼
Author
@lucyjones
has written a brilliant book that has set the world of
#motherhood
aflame. Matrescence describes the process of
#pregnancy
,
#birth
and early
#mothering
as a developmental stage, largely ignored by the world at large. For this she wins a
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Feat. Mr Blobby, dark matter, Octavia Butler, the abject, mites, the great work of
@susannewedlich
, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and un petit peu d'Oulipo 😛
In the woods near her home,
@lucyjones
encounters shape-shifting beings believed to be among the oldest living organisms on the planet, and becomes entangled in their fluid, nonbinary way of being. Read “Creatures That Don’t Conform.” Photos by Barry Webb.
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Plants growing through the walls of the little outbuilding in Scotland where I wrote most of Losing Eden
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MATRESCENCE is published in less than a month. Grateful to these early readers.
More details and preorder info for anyone inclined here >>
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I'll take that.
A rollercoaster non-fiction read - for anyone interested what happens to women when they grow babies.
Like someone crossed Angela Carter body horror fiction with a biology book.
@lucyjones
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"I don’t think I could’ve written Matrescence without Cusk’s work...A character in Parade describes art as “the pact of individuals denying society the last word”. I am grateful Cusk continues to uphold this pact. She is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see."
We stan:
In heartfelt praise of Rachel Cusk
@FaberBooks
@lucyjones
writes about Cusk's unflinching 2001 parenting memoir, ‘A Life’s Work’
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Housebound at the moment with sick children but getting my earth-wonder fix through really good clouds and slime moulds through the microscope
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Utter thrill that Matrescence is one of the
@newstatesman
’s best books of 2023. It’s in bananasly good company. And I love that the pull quote is a lil matroecology. With a serendipitous friend (not staged I swear)🕷️
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The programme for Talking Place, a symposium about place and creativity, held in Manchester in September, looks fantastic. I'm so looking forward to being in convo with
@kerri_ni
@jeffyoungwriter
&
@DrDavidCooper
More details here
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Thank you
@edbookfest
🩵
a delight to talk about maternity & metamorphosis with
@szilmolnar
and
@kirstylogan
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Wonderful to see 🕷️MATRESCENCE🕷️ in the
@NewStatesman
summer books list alongside Soldier Sailor (beyond) and Art Monsters (looks beyond)
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Stunningly surreal to see Losing Eden translated into Estonian and published by
@puantbooks
. 🧡 the cover and font. I’ve two copies to give away. If you would like one, comment below and I’ll pick at random. Can only send within UK, soz. Organisations like libraries etc too!
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Matrescence is a ‘One To Watch’ in The Bookseller. Exciting to see the word sporulating before publication in June. Thank you
@CaroSanderson
@thebookseller
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Thrilling review of Matrescence by Jude Rogers. To be read in this way is beyond gratifying. 🙏🏼😭
This is the best book I've ever read about motherhood, digging into how nature is often so much more brutal than it is 'healing'. Smashing so many myths. it's an essential read, for everyone. And thanks for being brave enough to write it,
@lucyjones
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~7 years since I started writing, Matrescence is now published in just 3 weeks! The cover by
@_TomEtherington
is even more striking and cool irl. Thank you very much to its early readers
@WanderingGaia
@MissLizBerry
@cloverstroud
@LauraDockrill
@kerri_ni
@tommustill
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I profiled Jem Bendell for
@BritishGQ
and spent some time thinking about doom, deep adaptation and collapse. With thanks to my excellent editor
@olifranklin
Delighted to have
@lucyjones
making her GQ debut with this gorgeous piece on the Deep Adaptation movement
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Lichen fam, all fam - you need to get into the lost rainforests of Britain! The abundance of life, beauty and awe is next level. Read all about it in Guy’s new book The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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Bristol friends; the amazing Bookhaus has copies of Matrescence and a beautiful cover-inspired mobile aloft! Thank you
@bookhaus2
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I am learning so much from the thought-provoking, in-depth, beautifully-written BBC series WITCH. It was such a pleasure talking with
@IndiaRakusen
for episode 2. It's all on Sounds or Radio 4 on Tuesday evenings at 11pm. Strong recommend!
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(And men too!) Thrilled with the first review of Matrescence, by the brilliant
@joannaofottawa
for The Spectator. The final paragraph has slayed me 😭
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Jacqueline Rose and
@marinab52
at
@camlitfest
this evening. An incredible conversation to witness, expansive and wide-ranging.
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If you would like a signed copy of Matrescence or a copy of the book with a personalised message on it for you, or someone else, I have a few first editions left and you can order via my website
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Happy publication day to this treasure of a book. Vital, beautifully written and astute; I loved it.
Last night my old psychotherapy tutor emailed me ahead of publication day. He said Uprooting ‘felt like an analytic exploration in the best sense of the word, aesthetic and honest, and always reaching for a more fundamental truth.’ I feel deeply seen in this. Go well, Uprooting!
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Returned to wonderful Walthamstow Marshes the other day for the first time in years. Where Losing Eden began; where I found my place again in the family of things.
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Publication day / thanks
@theipaper
for running an extract from Matrescence / Motherkind podcast / wolf’s milk slime mould
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The Matrescence event in Bristol
@bookhaus2
was something special. It was a thrill to talk to
@afroliage
about the institution of intensive motherhood, cultural silence around matrescence, oppressive ideas of “naturalness”, broken systems, myths & fictions, revolution. 🧵 1/4
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Coming down to earth after launching Matrescence. Tears, merch, nerves, love. Publishing this Thursday (and online launch June 27
@5x15stories
).
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Get into slime moulds and you’ll never have to take acid again
(jk, just say no)
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What a thrill. Thank you
@amy_may
and
@5x15stories
Thank you so much to
@lucyjones
and
@amy_may
for a fascinating, frank, insightful and much-needed conversation.
MATRESCENCE is out now published by
@AllenLaneBooks
- do please buy your copy from our wonderful independent bookshop partner
@NewhamBookshop
!
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Thank you
@BBCNuala
and
@BBCWomansHour
for having me on the show today and Sue from Rye for writing to the programme about my book Matrescence.
📚
@bbcwomanshour
listener Sue recognised herself in the book ‘Matrescence.’ She asked us to talk to its author
@LucyJones
.
👶🏾🤰They join
@BBCNuala
to discuss why changes during pregnancy and motherhood may be more profound than we have been led to believe.
🎧 Listen here ⬇️
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Loved this
@DavidNaimon
interview with
@jcfphillips
author of the magnificent The Baby on the Fire Escape about Le Guin, mothering x writing, the grandeur of the domestic, the artist housewife.
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