Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Robert Noble Adams, New Zealand, (1849-1914), poetry include: The Pig Hunt. Adams was a publisher, author and inventor and was the publisher for the Otago Daily Times and Witness Company from 1880 to retirement in 1908.
Adam Aitken, Australia (1960), poetry includes: Year of the Pig. Aitken is an Australian poet, memoirist, academic and editor. He is author of six collections of poetry.and his poems and short fiction have also been published widely in anthologies and literary journals. Aitken lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander, New Zealand (c. 1890-1953), poetry includes: Pig-skin Patriotism. Alexander was a writer and illustrator, best known for his regular contributions to The New Zealand Railways Magazine. He wrote humorous segments on many subjects, all illustrated with his own drawings.
Alfred Allen, Northern Ireland/Australia, (1839-1917), poetry includes: The “More Pork” Bird. Allen had a varied career as an engineer, gold digger, printer, manufacturer, insurance agent and poet. He was Life Governor of Sydney Hospital; a founder of the Sydney Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen and a leading Quaker. He was also active in philanthropic and other works and gave strong support to the temperance cause.
Ambai Mary [sic. Meri], Papua New Guinea, (fl. 2012), poetry includes: A day in the comfortable life of a highlands pig. Ambai Mary [sic. Meri] is the pen name of the author, who wished anonymity because of the writer’s anxiety about some prejudicial attitudes in Australia.
Nick Ascroft, New Zealand (b. 1973), poetry includes: Pig in a Pool, The Pig in the Hedge. Ashcroft is a poet, novelist and reviewer with a Masters in Linguistics from University of Otago in Dunedin. His poetry reviews and criticism are widely published in magazines in New Zealand and Australia, and he was the founding editor of the literary journal Glottis. Long based in Dunedin where he was also a renowned performance poet, he has since moved to the UK and now works for Bloomsbury Publishing in London, editing sports books and writing for their blog.
James Keir Baxter, New Zealand (1926-1972), poetry includes: Jerusalem Sonnets, Beatrice, A Little Letter to Auckland Students. Baxter was a poet, educator and advocate for social reforms in New Zealand. His alcoholism and frequent shifts of religion and life style were the center of much controversy and speculation.
Airini Jane Beautrais, New Zealand, (b. 1982), poetry includes: Pigs, potatoes / Te Kumi, 1883. Beautrais is a poet who lives in Whanganui, New Zealand. In 2016 she completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
Celia Berrell, (b. 1950), England-born Australian writer and poet, poetry includes: AUTOPSY, PIGS IN PARADISE, RAVENOUS, PIG STEW, CROP CIRCLES, ALL ABOARD. Berrell, artfully combines science and rhyming verse. She is the creator and poet behind the Science Rhymes book and website, and a regular contributor to Australia’s CSIRO children’s science magazine Double Helix. She often refers to herself as “The Alien Queen of Science Poetry”.
Kenneth Reginald Bolton, Australia (b. 1949), poetry includes: Outdoor Pig-keeping, 1954 & My Other Books on Pigs. Bolton is a poet, art critic, publisher, and editor of the literary magazines. He is associated with the Experimental Art Foundation, and operates a press, Little Esther Books. He is also the editor of the literary magazines Otis Rush and Magic Sam.