Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Jerome Betts, England, (contemporary), poetry includes: Thought For Food. Betts is a poet. He edits the quarterly Lighten Up Online. His verse has appeared in a wide variety of British magazines and anthologies as well as UK, European, and North American web venues.
Lillias Bever, United States, (b. 1966), poetry includes: Cesarean. She is a poet, book reviewer and educator. Bever received a B.A. from Vassar College, and an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Seneca Review, Pleiades, and others.
Sujata Bhatt, India (b. 1956), poetry includes: Allium Moly and Odysseus. Bhatt is a poet and a native speaker of Gujarati. She currently works as a freelance writer and has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets.
Sarah Binks, Canada (1906-1929), poetry includes: Pigs, Ode to a Deserted Farm and Hi, Sooky, Ho, Sooky. Binks, known as the “Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan,” was a poetess who immortalized the early 20th century Canadian Prairies. In her verse, Binks was able to characterize the notion of manure-spreading, frigid choring, and desperation farming as activities of joy.
United States, (1911-1979) A Prodigal The brown enormous odor he lived by was too close, with its breathing and thick hair, for him to judge. The floor was rotten; the sty was plastered halfway up with glass-smooth dung. Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts, the pigs’ eyes followed him, a cheerful stare — even to the … Read more
Walid Bitar, Lebanon/Canadian (b. 1961), poetry includes: The Island Porcile. Bitar is a poet. He attended the University of Toronto before traveling and working in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. From 1990 to 1991, he held a Teaching-Writing Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
Chantal Bizzini, France, (b. 1956), poetry includes: Pig, a sequel. Bizzini is a poet, translator, photographer, and collage artist who earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Paris. She is highly regarded for her French translations of British and American poets, including Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov and John Ashbery. She has published her own poetry and translations in Po&sie, Europe, Poésie 2005, Action Poétique and other international literary journals.
William Blake, Britain, (1757-1827) – poems include: I Saw a Chapel, Give pensions to the Learned Pig, The Everlasting Gospel (exerpt).
Poetic works by Diann Blakely in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Celia Bland, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Cherokee Hogscape. She is a poet, writer and educator and teaches at Bard College, where she is a Writer-in-Residence and the associate director of the Institute of Writing and Thinking.