Iris Murdoch’s Wild Imagination is the first book of its kind to include some of Iris Murdoch’s poetry. Blending the biographical with the lyrical, this chapter explores how Murdoch’s early poetry directs us to the first iterations of her ecological consciousness, a theme that has to compete with a multitude of others later on in the novels. It charts Murdoch’s early development as a reader and writer of poems at school and during her time at Oxford. It discusses a few of her poems, some published here for the first time, in the context of existing Murdochian poetry criticism and current ideas in environmental criticism and poetry relating to the natural world. The chapter also explores some of the many poets, including Wordsworth, Hopkins and Auden, who so obviously inspired the young Murdoch. It seeks to make no particular claim for Murdoch as a poet among poets. Instead, it focuses on the evidence of Murdoch’s attention to, and love of, the natural world that emerges early on in her literary practice through the more personal medium of poetry and carries through into her fiction.