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Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
He belonged to a group of writers who had subscribed themselves to the Green Movement which was involved in an effort to protect the environment. His poems speak of deep concerns for nature and expose man's cruelty to it. His notable poems include, How Do You Withstand (1966), Body (1976), Mirrored Mirroring (1991) and On killing a tree.
The Judith Wright Award was awarded as part of the ACT Poetry Award by the ACT Government between 2005 and 2011, for a published book of poems by an Australian poet. [ 29 ] The Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets (worth A$20,000 ), was established in 2007 by Overland magazine.
Her poetry combines dark introspection with joyous release. Though criticized for writing poetry that assumes a close relationship between women and nature, she found that the self is only strengthened through immersion in the natural environment. [13] Oliver is also known for her straightforward language and accessible themes. [10]
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". [2]
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
Petrucci's poems, short stories, articles and essays often investigate cross-disciplinary concerns (creativity, politics, science, the environment), [25] for instance the role of eco-art in dissolving society's resistance to pro-environmental change, [26] or the cross-fertilisation of disciplines by applying 'Scientific Visualizations' as ...
Marvell's concern with natural environments in his poetry has been of interest to recent ecological critics, though as critic Andrew McRae argues, “it is important to appreciate that this was a culture with only a rudimentary interest in what we understand as ecology.” [33] Some critics contend that “The Garden” was part of a larger ...