22 September 2026. Today marks the publication of the latest issue of Plant Human Quarterly (PHQ), edited by Neil Shepard. The new issue includes poem [4] selected from ecologica (2023) by Rozalie Hirs, in an English translation by Michele Hutchison.
Plant-Human Quarterly
Talking & Listening to Plants
Issue No. 22 — Autumn Equinox 2026
Welcome to Issue No. 22 of Plant-Human Quarterly!
Plant-Human Quarterly explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world, attempting to communicate across boundaries and possibly approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Published four times per year, on the solstices and equinoxes, PHQ’s poems and essays are paired with botanical images, merging verbal and visual mediums. PHQ is produced in collaboration with the Otherwise Collective, based in Amsterdam, NL. Together, we hope to transport people across the seemingly unbridgeable divide from the sentience of plants to humans.
Issue 22 features work by:
David Budbill
Bonnie Costello
Gillian Cummings
Isobel Dixon
Victoria Gatehouse
Philip Gross
Cindy Hill
Rozalie Hirs
Robert Lunday
Heather Newman
Pascale Petit
Katrina Porteous
Yvonne Reddick
Patricia Zylius
Artwork by Candela Murillo