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

EDITORIAL
Editorial John Charles Ryan

RESEARCH ARTICLES
An Archaeology of Ruderal Futurism Alex Young

Alien Plants between Practices and Representations: The Cases of European Spruce and Beach Rose in Finland Harri Uusitalo, Heta Lähdesmäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Otto Latva, Hannu Salmi, Teija Alenius

Poppies and Women Under the Linden Tree in a Slovak Village: Exploring Culturally Significant Plants Through Informed Archaeological Storytelling Zuzana Chovanec

Plants as Designers of Better Futures: Can Humans Let Them Lead? Julian Rutten, Alexander Holland, Stanislav Roudavski

Photographic Phytography: Towards a Photographic Re-Centring of the Oak Tree within Theory, Material and Practice Epha J. Roe

NARRATIVES
A Journey through Soviet and post-Soviet Plant Entanglements Susanne Fehlings

A Birch Memory Web Mykyta Peregrym

Conversations with Trees: The Experiences of an Arboreal Pilgrim Isabella Clarke

ARTIST COMMENTARY
Plant Intelligence in Moist Spaces: Designing Data Visualisations of Botanical Life Minjie Wen

POETRY
Three Poems from Blazing Star Megan Kaminski

Religar, from the Forest Time Project Evgenia Emets

BOOK REVIEWS
Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits Daniela Kato

Joela Jacobs and Agnes Malinowska (eds), Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-Matter Maura Flannery

Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts (eds), Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms Tamara Caulkins

Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance in Science and Literature

INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance Gabriele Dürbeck, Yixu Lu

RESEARCH ARTICLES
On Being Called by Plants: Phytopoetics and the Phytosphere John C. Ryan

Plant Parts: Vegetal Tropes and their Phytopoetic Resonances Across Botany and Culture Joela Jacobs

Becoming Media: Elements of a Media History of Plants Birgit Schneider

Interspecies Entanglements. Plant History and Racial Theory in Georg Forster’s Essay Vom Brodbaum (On The Breadtree, 1784) Nick Enright

Resonance and Vegetal Citizenship in Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac Hannes Bergthaller

Dangerous Resonances in Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves Claudia Keller

Plant Worlds Heather I. Sullivan

New German-language Nature Writing and the Language of Resonance and Reflection Gabriele Dürbeck, Yixu Lu

‘With/for Plants’: Resonances in Dance and Contemporary Performance (Ruth Geiersberger) Gabriele Brandstetter

SOUND ART
Into the Wind: Writing with a Fig Tree Merve Ünsal

POETRY
Moth Graffiti Christopher Konrad

BOOK REVIEW
Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Jayson Maurice Porter