Archives: Pig Poets

Maureen Clifford, Australia (contemporary), poetry includes: Goin’ Piggin’. Clifford is a poet, former Private Health Insurance worker, former grazier on a sheep property in SE Queensland and now edits the The Australia Times Poetry Magazine.

William Connor, Australia, (contemporary), works include: Pig. Connor is a poet, a secondary school English, Drama and German teacher, a writer and puppeteer. Currently, Connor is writing producing and “staring in” a Lifeswap, a series of short animations that he hopes to find peaceful and witty ways to earth the many weird and wonderful clashes, harmonies, misunderstandings and hilarities that he has seen occur when Germans and New Zealanders come together.

Julian Croft, Australia (b. 1941), poetry includes: Marking Time. Croft is a poet, teacher, fiction writer and literary journalist. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the School of English, Communication at the University of New England, NSW, Australia.

Jack Crossland, , Australia, (fl. 1953), poetry includes: Bold Tommy Payne and The Pig Catcher’s Love Song. Crossland was a cane farmer and troubador of considerable fame in the North Queensland area near the town of Smithfield.

Allen Curnow, New Zealand. (1911-2001), poetry includes: Variations on a Theme [Epilogue]. Curnow was a poet, journalist and taught at Auckland University from 1950 to 1976. His work has been recognized as among the finest produced in New Zealand, making him one of the defining voices of 20th-century New Zealand literature.

Bruce Dawe, Australia, (b. 1930), poetry includes: Dinner at My Sister’s. Dawe is a poet, teacher and jack-of-all trades. Through a great variety of early occupations, Dawe’s poems show extraordinary empathy with people from all backgrounds. He has the ability to express the drama and beauty of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to the general public.

Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, Australia, (1920-2012), poetry includes: The ‘Aunts’. Dobson was a poet, and also an illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry and was published in almost every annual volume of Australian Poetry.

Benjamin Dodds, Australia, (contemporary), poetry includes: Pig. Dodds is a poet, reviewer and a collector of Mickey Mouse watches.

Michael Theophilus Dom (aka: Icarus), Papua New Guinea, (b. 1977), poetry includes: Sonnet 3: I met a pig farmer the other day and The political economy of a pig farmer’s life. Dom is a poet and a postgraduate researcher at University of Adelaide after earlier degree from the Papua New Guinea National Agriculture Research Institute.

Geoffrey Dutton, Australia, (1922-1988), poetry includes: The Most Beautiful Rubbish Dump in the World and White Cyclamen. Dutton was a poet and a prolific and influential writer, editor, critic and book reviewer.