Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Stephen Oliver, New Zealand, (b. 1950), poetry includes: Transgenic Pigs. Oliver is a poet who has also worked as a newsreader, a journalist, and a copy and feature writer. He has traveled extensively – Paris, Vienna, London, San Francisco, Greece, Israel and he has worked for the radio ship The Voice of Peace broadcasting in the Mediterranean.
William Hosking Oliver, New Zealand, (1925-2015), poetry includes: The Swineherd. Oliver, commonly known as W.H. Oliver, was an eminent New Zealand historian and a poet. He also wrote extensively on New Zealand history and published several volumes of poetry.
Tommy Olofsson, Sweden, (b. 1950), poetry includes Chicago. Olofsson is an author, translator educator and a literary critic for the Swedish Daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Philip Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lanka/Canada (b. 1943), poetry includes: The Sows, Sows, one more time, Pig Glass and more. Ondaatje is a poet, novelist, filmmaker and editor. He is the author of four collections of poetry including The Cinnamon Peeler and most recently, Handwriting. Also the author of numerous novels, plays and pieces of literary criticism, Ondaatje is the author of the transcendent novel The English Patient, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.
Roman, (43 BC-AD 17/18) Metamorphoses BOOK XIV The Enchantments of Circe Before the spacious Front, a Herd we find Of Beasts, the fiercest of the savage Kind. Our trembling Steps with Blandishments they meet, And fawn, unlike their Species, at our Feet. Within, upon a sumptuous Throne of State On golden Columns rais’d th’Enchantress … Read more
Jan Owen (aka: Janette Muriel Sincock), Australia, (b. 1940), poetry includes: Calendar. Owen is a poet, creative writing teacher, editor, librarian, translator and laboratory assistant. She has published at least seven poetry collections.
William Dunkerley, England, (1852-1941), poetry includes: Gadara, A.D. 31. Dunkerley was a poet, journalist and novelist. He often wrote under the name John Oxenham for his poetry, hymn-writing, and novels and Julian Ross, for journalism. In 1892 Robert Barr and Dunkerley founded The Idler, a monthly general interest magazine.
José Emilio Pacheco, Mexico, (1939-2014), poetry includes: A Hog Meeting Its God, Questions about Pigs and Curses Visited upon the Aforementioned and Boar: Wild Pig. Pacheco was a poet, educator, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. He taught at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.
Richard Packer (aka: Lewis Packer), New Zealand, (1935-89), poetry includes: Circe boiling. Packer was a poet, playwright, journalist and advertising executive. Packer also travelled extensively and never cease to question the world and the role of man and womankind in it.
Poetic works by Palladius in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.