Geddes, Gary

pig poet

Gary Geddes, Canada (b.1940), poetry includes: Transubstantiation. Geddes is a poet and educator. He is most known for being a political and humanist poet and is member of the English department at Concordia University, Montreal.

Glassco, John

pig poet

John Glassco, Canada (1909-1981), poetry includes: The Whole Hog. Glassco was a poet, translator and writer, best known for his elegant, classical poems, his translations and his brilliant autobiography, Memoirs of Montparnasse.

Green, Craig D.

pig poet

Craig D. Green, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: Analogy of a Poem Forming called Pig. Green is a poet who treasures his privacy.

Griebel, Rosemary

pig poet

Rosemary Griebel, Canada (b. 1957), poetry includes: The Pigs. Griebel is a poet and librarian living in Calgary, Alberta. Yes (2010) is her first book of poems.

Groulx, David A.

pig poet

David A. Groulx, Canada (b. 1969), poetry includes: Acetone. Groulx is a part Ojibwe Indian and part French Canadian. He received his BA from Lakehead University, Ontario, and also studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C.

Hood, Robert Allison

pig poet

Robert Allison Hood, Scotland/Canada (1880-1958), poetry includes: The Rape of the Boot. Robert Hood was a poet and fiction author whose books include Ballads of the Pacific Northwest: Its Discovery and Settlement.

Hunter-Duvar, John

pig poet

John Hunter-Duvar, England/Canada (1830-1899), poetry includes Brawn of England’s Lay. Hunter-Duvar was a poet, journalist, farmer, businessman, public official and author who emigrated to the Canadian maritime province of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) in 1857. There, he developed his 700-acre estate, Hernewood, where he farmed, kept a small sawmill, built up his much renowned personal library, and wrote.

Jagger, Philip

pig poet

Phillip Jagger, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: Pigshoe Diaries. Jagger is an artist and poet based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the transformer of poetry, an eighties cartoonamaniac of verse.

Jennings, Fabian

pig poet

Fabien Jennings, Canada (b. 1942), poetry includes: Pigs. Jennings is a poet, playwright and public speaker from one of Canada’s prairie provinces.

Johnston, George

pig poet

George Johnston, Canada (1913-2004), poetry includes: Ribs, Roasts, Chops, Bacon. Johnston was a Canadian poet, translator, and academic. He then joined the English department at Carleton University, Ottawa, in 1950 and taught there until retirement in 1979.