Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
John Hunter-Duvar, England/Canada (1830-1899), poetry includes Brawn of England’s Lay. Hunter-Duvar was a poet, journalist, farmer, businessman, public official and author who emigrated to the Canadian maritime province of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) in 1857. There, he developed his 700-acre estate, Hernewood, where he farmed, kept a small sawmill, built up his much renowned personal library, and wrote.
Garrie Hutchinson, Australia, (b. 1949). poetry includes: helot. Hutchinson is a poet, freelance sports journalist and writer. He has published three poetry collections, as well as a number of other books on sport, as well as several works on military history, travel, and other general interest prose.
Robin Hyde, New Zealand, (1906-1939), real name: Iris Guiver Wilkinson, poetry includes: Revenant. Hyde was a poet, journalist and travel writer. As a poet and journalist, she did much to challenge the boundaries of women’s writing in the 1930s.
Gyula Illyes, Hungary, (1902-1983), poetry includes: A WINTER MEMORY. Illyes was a poet, novelist, playwright, and dissident. He was a leading literary figure in Hungary during the 20th century and is considered one of the most eminent poets of contemporary Hungary. He continued to express political, social and moral issues all through his life, but the main themes of his poetry remain love, life and death.
Poetic works by Tomás de Iriarte in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Poetic works by Nicki Jackowska in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Major Jackson, United States, (b. 1968), poetry includes: YOU, READER and November in Xichang. Jackson is a poet, editor and educator. He is the author of five collections of poetry, and earned degrees from Temple University and the University of Oregon. Currently he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University and also serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
Sarah Jackson, England, (b. 1977), poetry includes: Pig. Jackson is a poet, broadcaster, educator and researcher specializing in contemporary literature and theory. Jackson is an Associate Professor in English at Nottingham Trent University.
Phillip Jagger, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: Pigshoe Diaries. Jagger is an artist and poet based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the transformer of poetry, an eighties cartoonamaniac of verse.
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, United States, (b. 1967), poetry includes: The Gospel of Barbecue. Jeffers is a poet, educator, novelist and essayist. She received an MFA from the University of Alabama and is a Full Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She is the author of five critically acclaimed books of poetry and a novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, (2021). For over twenty years, She has been lifting her voice on issues of black culture, racism, American history, and gender through the medium of writing.