Australia, (b. 1949)
Taking a Pig To Market
- Pigs are keen to look at everything, as dogs are, and that is why
- they love to be put in a trailer and taken on a journey through this
- endlessly puzzling and amazing world. To be taken on a trailer
- and driven away is to find yourself unexpectedly in charge of
- the world, to find yourself filled with curious thoughts and new
- experiences. No need to ask why this is happening and where we
- might be going. These are considerations far away in a future so
- distant it might as well be tomorrow.
Kevin Brophy & Nathan Curnow. Radar. North Hobart, Tas. : Walleah Press (2012).
About the Poet:
Kevin Brophy, Australia (b. 1949), is a poet, essayist and novelist. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction and essays. Brophy was educated by Jesuits and later studied literature and psychology at the University of Melbourne. Currently, he is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2015 he was poet in residence at the BR Whiting Library in Rome.
Brophy is a member of the small, independent poetry publishing house, Five Islands Press. He is also a life member of Writing Victoria, a patron of the Melbourne Poets Union and co-editor of the on-line journal TEXT of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs. [DES-02/17]