Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson, Australia, (1864-1941), poetry includes: The Maori Pig Market and A Change of Menu. Paterson was a bush poet, journalist and author. He was popularly known as “Banjo” Paterson from his pen name, “The Banjo.” He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas.
John Payne (1842-1916), was a British poet and translator of exotic poems and tales. He is now best known for his translations of the Diwan of Hafez, Boccaccio’s Decameron, The Arabian Nights and works of Villon.
Margaret Ruth Peacocke, England, (b. 1930) [also known as Meg Peacocke or M.R. Peacocke] poetry includes: Pig Sonnet. Peacocke is an poet, children’s author and lyricist. Peacocke studied English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She now has more than seven poetry books published.
Brittany Perham, United States, (b. 1981), poetry includes: The Curiosities. Perham is a poet and educator. She is the author of Double Portrait (2017), The Curiosities (2012) and The Night Could Go In Either Direction (2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where she held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from 2009-2011.
United States, (1924-2014) Brueghel’s Pig the world runs with a knife stuck through its hide a wedge sliced from its back © Robert Peters. Holy Cow: Parable Poems, Red Hill Press, 1974. Editor’s Note: Peters is referring to the pig in the painting “The Land of Cockaigne” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Gyp, My Loving … Read more
Kevin Phan, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Some Things Which Filled Us with a Sense of Loitering. Phan is a poet, a former volunteer Buddhist monk/construction worker and now works in the maintenance of athletic facilities. A graduate of the University of Michigan with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program, he says the Buddha is his homeboy.
Poetry by Peter Pindar in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Sylvia Plath, United States, (1932-1963) – poems include: Sow, Totem, Stillborn. Plath is known for her intense and harrowing confessional poetry.
Danny Pogue, United States, (fl. 1996-2001), poetry includes: The Philosophy of Pig Castration.
Vasile Popa, Serbia, (1922-1991), poetry includes: Pig/Свиња. Popa was a poet who wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed more to French surrealism and Serbian folk traditions than to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II. His work, took its bearings from the songs and folklore of his native Serbia and from surrealism.