Ecopoetry

Poetry with an emphasis on the environment, ecology, ecosystems, empathy towards all living creatures, and providing a voice to nature and its natural processes. Global warming, climate change, and concern around lack of human urgency in the face of those things are frequent themes. Ecopoetry goes beyond nature poetry to include a sense of interconnectedness between humans and the environment and to protest against environmental injustices.

Updated March 5, 2026
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Speech dries here on the tongue : poetry on environmental collapse and mental health
Ghadery, Hollay
Speech Dries Here on the Tongue is an anthology of poetry by Canadian authors exploring the relationship between environmental collapse and mental health. This threat of environmental collapse has brought with it a sense of impending annihilation and has contributed to the current mental health...
You are here : poetry in the natural world
Limón, Ada
Ebook
Nature poem
Pico, Tommy
Paper Book
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview...
Sweet water : poems for the watersheds
Blomer, Yvonne
Paper Book
This book gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary and lake, sweet water is the planets life force and the poets here examine it from every angle the pitcher plant, the beaver and the American Bull Frog,...
I'll Get Right On It : Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis
Paper Book
The deepening climate crisis is making all kinds of work harder, more dangerous and more unpredictable -- or if it hasn't yet, it will soon enough. And all kinds of workers have something to say about it. I'll Get Right On It is a poetry anthology about making a living and carrying on despite smoky...
10:10
Trussler, Michael
Paper Book
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Shortlisted, Nelson Ball Prize Escaping from the evils of the modern world into the vivid colours of a bird's plumage, Michael Trussler's 10:10plunges into the mystery and horror of living at the beginning of the...
A new index for predicting catastrophes : poems
Anand, Madhur
Paper Book
Originating from her living room, backyard garden, university office, or the field sites in boreal or tropical forests, the poems in this debut collection by Madhur Anand compose a lyric science; they bring together order and chaos into a unified theory of predicting catastrophes, large and small....
Parasitic oscillations : poems
Anand, Madhur
Paper Book
Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book "Anand's attention to and ability to evoke explicit, exponential beauty in scientific and natural form are simply stunning. . . . Anand's debut is in every measure a triumph." --Publishers...
Shadow Price
Ghafoor, Farah
Paper Book
Shortlisted, 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards A CBC Best Book of 2025 Borrowing its title from a finance term--"the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists"--Shadow Price is a stunning debut...
Signal infinities : a poem
Siebert, Melanie
Paper Book
In Signal Infinities a therapist takes up an apprenticeship to a lake, to bare attention. Pain arrives. Collective and personal injuries and errors pile up. The glaciers and ancient forests are disappearing. Unlike the Iliad's soldiers, the cast of youth in this long poem harbour traumas that are...
Parade of Storms
Lau, Evelyn.
In her tenth volume of poetry, Parade of Storms, award-winning author Evelyn Lau turns her focus on the weather. Never having thought of herself as an environmental poet, the author found that under the strictures of the pandemic the recent effects of climate change became more and more intrusive...

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