Poetry has fascinated mankind since time immemorial and nature has always been its major theme. But with the transition of mankind from the lap of nature to a digital age, the plenitude of nature began to be exploited. Massive destruction of the environment began as man started crossing his own territory to be the master of the world. Such seismic changes gave rise to environmentally oriented works which aimed at preventing an apocalypse. Colonization witnessed not only continental imperialism but also ecological imperialism. The paper Anatomizing Post-Columbian “Contaminated Communities” represented in Contemporary American and Australian Poetry aims to analyze the post colonial changes that took place in Australia and America and how it is represented in poetry.