Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Poets and artists of Canadian nationality.
Charlene Jones, Canada, (b. 1952), poetry includes: Pig Dreams. Jones is a poet, writer, reviewer, practicing psychotherapist, meditation teacher and newspaper correspondent. Her work as a psychotherapist and teacher involves the practice of Buddhist Vajrayana Meditation, Vipassana, and of all forms of western psychotherapeutic modalities.
Jake Kennedy, Canada (b. 1972), poetry includes: On Safety (Bricks). Kennedy is a poet, prose writer and teacher. He teaches in the English Department at Okanagan College in British Columbia.
John Raymond Knister, Canada (1899-1932), poetry includes: Feed. Knister was a poet, novelist, short story writer, columnist, editor and reviewer. He was a practitioner of the poetic school known as imagism, a literary movement pledged to the use free verse, common speech patterns, and clear concrete images as a reaction to Victorian sentimentalism.
Ron Lambert, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: Vaquero Voodoo. Lambert is a poet, singer-songwriter and Cowboy Action Shooter with a keen interest in the history of ranching and cowboying.
Archibald Lampman, Canada, (1861-1899), poetry includes: The Cup Of Life. Lampman is widely regarded as Canada’s finest 19th-century English-language poet. He was a member of the so-called “Confederation” group of poets which also included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman and Duncan Campbell Scott.
John B. Lee, Canada (b.1951), poetry includes: Rondeau of a Swineherd, Red Barns, The Corpselessness of Memory, Those Damned Confederation Poets. Lee is a poet, author of fiction and non-fiction, and editor. He has well-over sixty books published to date and is the editor of seven anthologies.
Sylvia Legris, Canada,(b. 1960), poetry includes: Cold Zodiac and Butchered Pig & The Lungs and Other Viscera, c.1508. Legris is a poet and educator. She is currently a mentor at the University of Saskatchewan’s MFA in Creative Writing Program and is a former Poet-in-Residence for Arc Poetry Magazine and a former editor of Grain Magazine.
Rochelle Mass, Canada (b. 1943), poetry includes: At the Dinner Party. Mass is a poet, short stort writer, translator and editor. She lives with her family in a Jewish settlement on the Gilboa Mountain, overlooking the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.
James McIntyre, Scotland/Canada (1827-1906), poetry includes: Hints to Cheese Makers, Bacon, Hogg, Lamb and Shakespeare, and Adventures With Bears. McIntyre, “The Cheese Poet,” was a poet and businessman operating a furniture factory and a retail store in Ontario. He used his poesy and oratorical skills to promote his business, local agriculture and to celebrate the proud history of Canada – the natural beauty and industry of the region, and especially its cheese.
Don McKay, Canada (b. 1942), poetry includes: I Scream You Scream, Setting the Table, Nocturnal Animals and The Dumpe. McKay is a poet, editor, publisher and educator. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of New Brunswick, The Banff Centre, the Sage Hill Writing Experience, and the BC Festival of the Arts. McKay is co-founder of Brick Books, one of Canada’s leading poetry presses. In 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.