www.TLHjournal.com Literary Herald ISSN: 2454-3365 UGC-Approved Journal An International Refereed English e-Journal Impact Factor: 2.24 (IIJIF) Vol. 3, Issue 1 (June 2017) Page 959 Dr. Siddhartha Sharma Editor-in-Chief An Ecocritical Reading of Select Northeast Indian English Poetry Amrita Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor Amity Institute of English Studies and Research Amity University, Kolkata Abstract Poetry, as with art in any other form, has an existence that is intertwined with the nature the poet, or the artist, lives in. While they can, of course, be defined and studied separately; it is not possible for poetry to exist bereft of nature. This is especially true for North-East Indian poetry as one of the major themes of the poetry emerging from this region is the relationship of the different peoples living here with the space they live in. this paper tries to analyze this relationship and its effect on the English poetry emerging from this region. The paper looks into the concepts of deep ecology to try and find a pattern in North East Indian English poetry. Deep ecology has a profound effect in the poetry of this region where one can clearly envisage a shift in the worldview from anthropocentric to biocentric. The paper also looks at the ecotone as present in the poetry of this region and how far the ecotone is productive in building a bridge between poetic concern and ecological planning. The other aspect this paper focuses on is the concept of reversed sublime as applicable in North East Indian English poetry. An Ecocritical Reading of Select Northeast Indian English Poetry The North-East region of India is not simply a geographical place in the Indian map, it is also a rich storehouse of cultural and literary activities of the different tribal/racial groups living in this region. North-East literature is as diverse, in its manifestation of different aspects of cultural life of this region, as the perspectives of the various cultural groups that seek to define to their distinctive cultural traits. In fact, a study of the poetry of this region shows that there are contested issues, multiple forms of representation and heterogeneous modes of expression which need to dealt with a lot of understanding of the different poets cultural/social positioning. There are several other themes percolating the same body of literature that cry out for a reader‘s attention – one of the most significant among them being relationship between the peoples of this geography with the space they live in. Nature poetry – in its most traditional form – had to have a place in North East Indian literature if not for anything else, then for the sheer variety and beauty evident in that area. However, that is certainly not where this region‘s poetry was confined too.