Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
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If you go to the antipodes of this world – Australia and New Zealand – you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. But this is also Captain Cook’s Pig Farm, so you’ll find pigs there, as well. This anthology looks at the poetic potential of pigs as viewed by Australians and New Zealanders.
The Expositor; or Many Mysteries Unravelled by Wm F. Pinchbeck was one of the first works on magic published in the United States. Published in 1805, it was the first book length expose of conjuring tricks written by a professional magician. It provided readers with explanations and printed instructions for the creation and performance of many marvels including how to create a Learned Pig.
Modern minstrels still sing of dragons, but they sing of pigs as well. And Canadian poetry favors the pig in this collection now available in the library. The works of fifty Canadian poets join the ten already here, and over one-hundred fifty more poems are now available. Alas, there are few dragons…
Here are some recent additions to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section of the Arnold Ziffel Memorial Library. Poets ask us to consider the pig in the context of nursery rhymes, morals, allegory and more.
For Spring 2012, Porkopolis.org is pleased to announce a major poetry update to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section of the Library.