“Ecopoetry” is a recently coined term ascribed to the area of ecocriticism that refers to a kind of poetry with a strong environmental concern. One of the most important examples of this trend in literary criticism is Jonathan Bate’s The Song of the Earth, whose literary scope ranges from the Romantics to Phillip Larkin. This book recasts the work of poets like William Wordsworth to and S.T. Coleridge from an environmental perspective, paying attention to the interconnection between nature, politics and geography in poetry.

However, the term “ecopoetry” might also refer to a kind of bodily engagement with nature that fosters creativity in thinking and in writing, as claimed by the tutors of the Ecopoetry Project in Schools http://www.uea.ac.uk/ams/ecopoetry.

This project, developed by the School of Literature and Creative Writing in conjunction with the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, and the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, aimed at reconnecting children with nature via creative writing.