Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
United States, (1884-1933) The Star A WHITE star born in the evening glow Looked to the round green world below, And saw a pool in a wooded place That held like a jewel her mirrored face. She said to the pool: “Oh, wondrous deep, I love you, I give you my light to keep. Oh, … Read more
Ko Ko Thett, Myanmar (Burma), (b. 1972), poetry includes: Swine. Thett is a poet, editor, translator and activist. His poems have been translated into several languages and widely anthologized. He writes in both Burmese and English. Thett is widely credited with introducing contemporary Burmese poetry to the English-speaking world with the acclaimed 2013 anthology, Bones Will Crow, which he translated and co-edited with James Byrne.
Lucy Thynne, England, (b. 2001), poetry includes: agnes. Thynne is a poet, writer and editor. She is currently studying English at Somerville College, Oxford where she edits fiction for her university magazine. Thynne is also an Editor at the Oxford Review of Books. She has read at Ledbury Poetry Festival and at the Oxford Literary Festival.
Gráinne Tobin, Ireland, (b.1951), poetry includes: Missing. Tobin is a poet, translator and educator. She taught in Shimna Integrated College in Newcastle and has published three poetry collections. One of her poems was long listed for the 2013 National Poetry Competition.
Alfred Tomlinson, England, (b. 1927), poetry includes: On A Pig’s Head. Tomlinson is a poet, educator, translator and artist. He is Emeritus Professor of English Poetry at the University of Bristol, England. He was made a CBE in 2001 for his contribution to literature.
John Ernest Tranter, Australia, (b. 1943), poetry includes: Notes from the Late Tang. Tranter is a poet, a literary critic, editor and publisher. Tranter took his BA in 1970 and has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production. He is a company director of Australian Literary Management, a leading literary agency.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, United States, (b. 1969), poetry includes: From Pigs to the Dogs. Trommer is a poet, storyteller and writer about the creative potential and process. In Colorado she served as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017). She is the author of many collection of poetry, including Hush, Naked for Tea and The Less I Hold. Trommer is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process with Christie Aschwanden.
Brian Turner, New Zealand, (b. 1944), poetry includes: Pig and A Good Keen Man. Turner is a poet, essayist, biographer and editor, as well as a critic, playwright, environmentalist commentator and television writer. He was appointed as the fourth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2003.
United States, (b. 1953) Ode to Bacon Grease, the Key Ingredient of Southern Cuisine Does your soul find sweet release in meals home-cooked with bacon grease? And living now in Northern clime do you yet long for food sublime prepared with rendered flesh of swine? Or having sloughed the South’s compulsion for salty, smoky pork … Read more
Stacy Johnson Tuthill, United States, (1925-2010), poetry includes: ALL THE WAY HOME. Tuthill was a poet, writer and publisher. She founded a small, non-profit literary press, Sound and Color of Poetry (SCOP) Publications in 1976 based in College Park, Maryland. SCOP published Tuthill’s Laurels: Eight Women Poets in 1998, which documented all the women who had served up to that time as US Poets Laureate. Tuthill is the author of five full-length books of poems and two chapbooks.