Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Henri Cole, Japan/United States, (b. 1956), poetry includes: PIG. Cole is a poet and educator. Cole is an American poet, who has published many collections of poetry and a memoir. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Arabic. Cole currently teaches at Claremont McKenna College. He is a master of cadence, and a connoisseur of the suggestive mysteries surrounding cadence, how rhythms and meanings rub against each other.
Billy Collins (b. 1941), US poet, poetry includes: Wolf and Porky. Collins is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, and eleventh Poet Laureate (2001) of the Library of Congress.
Stephen Collis, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: suckling pigs. Collis is a poet, critic, author, social activist and teacher. He is a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.
William Connor, Australia, (contemporary), works include: Pig. Connor is a poet, a secondary school English, Drama and German teacher, a writer and puppeteer. Currently, Connor is writing producing and “staring in” a Lifeswap, a series of short animations that he hopes to find peaceful and witty ways to earth the many weird and wonderful clashes, harmonies, misunderstandings and hilarities that he has seen occur when Germans and New Zealanders come together.
Juliet Cook, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Self Portrait As Semi-Amorphous Entity. Cook is a poet and the editor/publisher of a one-woman indie press, Blood Pudding Press. She also edits a blog-style literary magazine called Thirteen Myna Birds.
Dennis Cooley, Canada (b. 1944), poetry includes: hog line 4. Cooley is a Canadian poet, writer, editor and teaches Canadian literature, poetry, creative writing and literary theory at St. John’s College, the University of Manitoba.
Poetic works by Thomas Cooper in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Wendy Cope, United Kingdom, (b. 1945), poetry includes: Traditional Prize County Pigs and (Poem #1323) Strugnell’s Sonnets (VI). Cope is a poet and considered a classic English humorist, though her work can also often also take a more meditative tone. Cope has received an Order of the British Empire and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Cope also created Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet from Tulse Hill, in south London as a persona employed by her in her collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.
Maria Costantini, Italy/United States, (b. 1950), poetry includes: Like Us. Costantini is a poet, educator and bilingual/ESL translator. She writes poetry, creative non-fiction, and poetic translations. Much of her work reflects her cultural heritage from Italy and her immigrant experience. She has a BA and MA from Wayne State University and a Specialist’s Degree in Educational Administration. She taught in and chaired the English Language Learner Program, K-12, for the Utica Community Schools in Michigan for twenty-eight years.
British, (1925-2003) Pigs(four ways of looking at) To Westacre Belle and Prestatyn Lucy Scrubbed pink They look the most naked of animals, Except for the coarse hair, Almost colorless and seen close to. With ears like awnings over their small eyes, They root with their blunt and specially Gristled noses, their legs almost Ridiculously … Read more