PP Vol.2 (2), October 2025

Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities

INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities Caroline Cornish, Christina Hourigan

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Tree Biographies and the Cultural History of Place at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew* Christina Hourigan

Beatrix Potter and the ‘Timber Question’: Arboreal Stewardship in the English Lake District Anna Burton

Shelley’s Arboreal Poetics of Place and Wordsworth’s ‘Woodland State’ Amanda Blake Davis

Amherstia Nobilis: High priest of the Vegetable World Kate Teltscher

The Absence of the Ackee Tree: Jamaican Botanical Resistance and Kew’s Colonial Archive Heather Craddock

Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples Maria Kennedy

Where on Earth are the Moon Trees? Melanie Ford, Eric A. Macdonald

POETRY
‘Let Us … Have a Look at the Glorious Old Yew Once Again’: Eliza Cook, Yew Trees and Intertemporal Legacies Shani Cadwallender

The Tree You Want Dean Anthony Brink

BOOK REVIEWS
Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree Shruti Jain

Daniel Lewis, Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future Natasha Heller

M.L. Herring, Born of Fire and Rain: Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest Mika Hyman