Archives: Pig Poets

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.