Join us for an online book event June 7
Official book release coming July 7
Published by Chelsea Green
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There are three in-person events circling around Trembling, Still
this Summer and Fall 2026.
From Trembling, Still:
“Neurodegeneration, I have to say, is terrifying. The grinding, grueling prospects are occluding, eclipsing, enervating, eviscerating at times. When your brain’s involved, and things aren’t fatal in the short or even the medium term, the feeling of doom, of being preyed upon and hunted in the night, is strong. I lay down at night and wonder what will be left of me when I rise. My dreams were and sometimes still are spiked with assassins, predators, ambushes, and those menacings have had me down on the floor on all fours at four a.m., panting, dry mouthed, with no recollection of how I got there.”
Interviews
Stephen Jenkinson was recently featured on The Container Podcast, sharing his reflections on the book.
Interviews:
The Shapeshifting Play
What does it mean to receive a card you didn’t ask for, and how do you respond? In Act 5 of The Shapeshifting Play, we step into House Eight, the house of death, transformation, and what survives the crossing, with Stephen Jenkinson: writer, teacher, ceremonialist, farmer, and one of the most precise and oracular voices alive.
Stephen’s newest book, Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse, is a year-long journal written from the day of his Parkinson’s diagnosis to its first anniversary. A rosary of shards, he calls it. This conversation follows its spine, from the laughter of the gods to the grammar of grief, from the etymology of fate to the oldest religion amongst humans, which Stephen names simply as awe.
We talk about why joy is born from sorrow of sufficient depth, not after it, not despite it, from it. We talk about what the dying kept returning to. We talk about what it means to say yes anyway, even when you are not ready, even when it is not according to what you had in mind for yourself.
This one opened me up, and I hope it does the same for you.
The Container Podcast
Stephen Jenkinson is a culture activist and author who brings together ceremony, music, and story. His much-loved book Die Wise taught us how to face that hardest of topics: death. In 2024, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Now, in his new book Trembling Still, he captures in intimate detail his path with the illness.
