Media and Reviews

Interviews

Plant Intelligence. Interview with S. Gougoulis. Weekend Breakfast, Triple J, ABC Radio, Australia, Jun. 24, 2023
 
‘Are Plants Intelligent?’ Interview with M. Bekoff. Psychology Today, Dec. 16, 2021 [link]

‘A Conversation with John C. Ryan’ by L. Frick. CutBank Literary Journal, Jul. 27, 2020 [link]

‘Perth’s Brief Abalone Season is a Time of Delicacies and Danger’, SBS News, Dec. 7, 2018 [link]

Radio Interview, The Language of Plants. Blueprint for Living, ABC Radio National, Aug. 2017 [listen]

Interview, What is Ecopoetics? Writer’s Edit, 2015 [read]



Reviews

The Language of Plants mentioned in ‘17 Fantastic Gifts for Plant Lovers’ by M. Cullen, The New York Times – Wirecutter, Dec. 14, 2022 [link]

‘Review of A. Hubbell and J. Ryan’s Introduction to the Environmental Humanities’ by R. Giblett. Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, vol. 3, no. 2 (2022): 149–53 [link]

‘Crowded Waters: A Pedagogical Review of Recent Environmental Humanities Introductory Texts’ by L. Rodewald. The Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 53, iss. 4 (2022): 221–230 [link]

‘Review of The Mind of Plants: Scholars, Mystics and Activists Explore the Profound Awareness of Plants’ by R. Tindall. Lucid News, Jun. 16, 2022 [link]

‘Review: Plants in Contemporary Poetry’ by E. Mason. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, vol. 24, iss. 1 (2020): 90–92 [link]

‘Review: Pagpapaamo sa Apokalipsis: Isang Rebyu ng Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects’ by Timothy F. Ong. Katipunan, no. 4 (2019): 237–242 [link]

‘Review: Plants in Contemporary Poetry’ by J. Nichols. ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) Journal, 31 Jan. 2019 [link]

‘Review: The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature (eds. M. Gagliano, J. Ryan, & P. Vieira)’ by B. Vogt. Great Plains Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2017, 221–222 [link]

‘Review: The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature (eds. M. Gagliano, J. Ryan, & P. Vieira)’ by D. Keetley. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 24, no. 3 (2017), 599–601 [link]

‘Review: The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature (eds. M. Gagliano, J. Ryan, & P. Vieira)’ by J.W. Dauben. American Library Association: Choice, vol. 55, no. 3 (2017): 368–369 [link]

‘Review: John Charles Ryan (ed.), Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects’ by A. Yeow. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, vol. 54, iss. 2 (2017): 27–30 [link]

‘The Language of Plants Review: What We Can Learn from Our Vegetal Friends’ by F. Capp. The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 Oct. 2017 [link]

‘The Language of Plants Examines Nature’s Complexities’ by S. Caterson. The Weekend Australian, 16–17 Sept. 2017 [link]

‘What is the True Language of Plants’ by Nigel Chaffey. Botany One, Nov. 9, 2017 [link]

‘Review: The Green Thread: Dialogues With the Vegetal World (eds. P. Vieira, M. Gagliano, & J. Ryan)' by M.W. Sivils. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 23, no. 3 (2016): 642–643 [link]

‘Plant Power: A New Project is Recording the Cultural Value of Plants’. Australian Geographic (Text and Photos by J. Ryan), March/April Issue, 2016, 21 [link]

‘The Ubiquitous Century: Music and the Digital Arts’: Review of Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media (C. Hope & J. Ryan)' by S. MacArthur. Musicology Australia, vol. 37, no. 1 (2015): 76–84 [link]

‘Review of Green Sense: The Aesthetics of Plants, Place and Language’ by Barbara Holloway. AJE: The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, vol. 4 (2015): 1–3 [link]

‘Review of Green Sense: The Aesthetics of Plants, Place and Language’ by R. Aitken. Australian Garden History, vol. 25, iss. 3 (2014): 23 [link]

‘Review: Two with Nature’. The West Australian, 1 Jan. 2013 [link]

‘The Performing West: Review of Performance Poets: Fremantle Poets’ by J. Rodriguez. Australian Poetry, 11 Dec. 2013 [link]

‘Review Short: Ellen Hickman and John Ryan’s Two with Nature’ by R. McFarlane. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 June 2013 [link]

‘Review of Ellen Hickman and John Ryan’s Two with Nature’. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 2013 [link]

‘A Fusion of Art and Science: Review of Ellen Hickman and John Ryan’s Two with Nature’ by P. B. Adams, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 2013 [link]

‘Literary Symbiosis: Review of Two with Nature’ by L. Newell. Albany Advertiser, 25 Oct. 2012 [link]

Launch of Two with Nature at Edith Cowan University by Poet Andrew Taylor. 8 Nov. 2012 [link]

‘Albany Botanist’s Art Featured in Book’ by L. Newell. Albany Advertiser: The Extra, 23 Nov. 2012 [link]

‘Two with Nature: Meet the Author Event at Genesis’. 2012 [link]    

Short Review in Gleebooks Gleaner, vol 19, no. 10 (2012): 27 [link]

Two with Nature Media Release, Fremantle Press, Dec. 2012 [link]