Country: Canada

Mrs. Walter [Mary] Buchanan, Scotland/Canada (1863-1927), poetry includes: Piggy. Buchanan was born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1881. In the midst of an arduous life as a farm wife and mother of four, Mary composed poems which reflected her Scottish roots and praised her adopted Canadian homeland. Buchanan’s book of poems,Country breezes from Breezy Brae (1910), includes her most famous works.

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, England, (1845-1914), poetry includes: The Death Of The Boar. Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, was a poet, travel writer and folklorist, a British nobleman married to Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, Princess Louise and the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.

Margaret Christakos, Canada, (b. 1962), poems include: (:field). Christakos is a Toronto-based poet, fiction writer and creative writing educator. She was Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2004-2005, and since 2006 has taught poetry and creative writing at Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon at U of T School of Continuing Studies. She is also the Publishing Editor of the online poetics magazine Influency Salon.

Stephen Collis, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: suckling pigs. Collis is a poet, critic, author, social activist and teacher. He is a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Dennis Cooley, Canada (b. 1944), poetry includes: hog line 4. Cooley is a Canadian poet, writer, editor and teaches Canadian literature, poetry, creative writing and literary theory at St. John’s College, the University of Manitoba.

Gary Michael Dault, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: ‘I am here because life’. Dault is a poet, writer, visual artist and critic based in Toronto. Dault teaches Modernisms: Twentieth Century Culture and Criticism at the at Waterloo University School of Architecture.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Italian/Canadian (b. 1949), poetry includes: Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor. Di Cicco is a poet and writer. He was appointed by the City of Toronto as its second Poet Laureate (2004 – 2009). His monographs and essays have pioneered a study of civility proactive to the design of a city and his urban philosophy has influenced municipal policy in Canada, the U.S. and United Kingdom.

David Fraser, Ph. D., Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: Mineral-deficient diets and the pig’s attraction to blood: implications for tail-biting, Armed sibling rivalry among suckling piglets, and the Dunging Poem. Fraser is a Canadian poet and professor of Applied Biology and Animal Science at the University of British Columbia.