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 February 14, 2026
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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.

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The gift of animals : poems of love, loss, and connection
Deming, Alison Hawthorne
Paper Book
This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. Animals have long been a source of...
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...
Water quality
Woodman Kerkham, Cynthia
Paper Book
I find my bearings by clouds of moon jellies / afloat beneath my anchored boat, / pulsing the sea's bright night, / their milky way, unfurling. In these lush and vivid poems water gloves a swimmer's body, is "satin, yes, viscous. Albumen, vernix, newborn slick." It "rinses gai lan -...
Parasitic oscillations : poems
Anand, Madhur
Paper Book
Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist 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...
You are here : poetry in the natural world
Limón, Ada
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection A 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection "Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times ...
Hazard, home
Lowther, Christine
Paper Book
Hazard, Home is a tribute to both wonder and grief for Earth's inhabitants and systems. With admiration for the land holders (trees) and inhabitants of the rainforest, wetlands and oceans of her home, former Tofino Poet Laureate Christine Lowther delves into the pressing issues of urbanization,...
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...
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