Plant Perspectives
PP Vol.2 (1), April 2025

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
PP Vol.1 (2), October 2024

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
PP Vol.1 (1), April 2024

EDITORIAL
Editorial John Charles Ryan
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Voltaire’s Breadfruit: Thoughts on the Inspiration for an Eighteenth-Century Colonial Botanical Transfer Russell Fielding
Ahuehuete, Water Elder: Drought, Hope and ‘Comunalidad’ in Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico Max D. López Toledano
Plantiness, Multispecies Conviviality and Changing Human-Plant Geographies Subarna De
Wetland Plants and Aboriginal Paludiculture in North- and South-Eastern Australia Rod Giblett
Companion Plant Reading: Translating Vegetal Voices Astrid Møller-Olsen
Botanical Awareness and Adolescent Maturation in Siri Pettersen’s Odin’s Child Irene Bordignon
Unlocking Landscapes Through Westonbirt’s Archive: Exploring the Inclusive Possibilities of Entangled Histories of Plants, Places and People Clare Hickman, Sarah L. Bell
FICTION
Invisible Kelp Forest: from Smell to Sound Melody Jue, Anya Yermakova, Jacob Cram, Eli Stine
Fungsu Mukesh Malviya, Nina Bhatt
POETRY
Invisible Landscape Esthela Calderón, Steven F. White
The Frost that Touches the Bark and Goes Noëlle King
Trees as Lived (Some Retorting Legends) Peter Larkin
Serenade for the Eucalypt Outside Number 85 Anne Elvey
In a Landscape (1948) Glen Phillips
BOOK REVIEWS
Stella Sandford, Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants Christian Keeve
Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade Diego Molina
The very first issue of our new journal Plant Perspectives is due for publication later this year. In the meantime, you can find out more here.