ecopoetry
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ecopoetry (usually uncountable, plural ecopoetries)
- Poetry with a strong ecological message or emphasis.
- 2002, Julian Wolfreys, Introducing criticism at the 21st century:
- The best ecopoetry, in Bate's view, is not overtly political, let alone propagandistic.
- 2000, Jonathan Bate, The song of the Earth:
- Ecopoetry is not synonymous with writing that is pragmatically green: a manifesto for ecological correctness will not be poetic because its language is bound to be instrumental, to address questions of doing rather than to 'present' the experience of dwelling.
- 2005, J Scott Bryson, The west side of any mountain: place, space, and ecopoetry: