Leadbeater, Neil
Neil Leadbeater, England, (b. 1951), poetry includes: THE BRITISH LOP, THE GLOUCESTER OLD SPOTS, THE SADDLEBACK and THE TAMWORTH. Leadbeater is a poet, author, essayist and critic.
Archives: Pig Poets
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Leax, John
John R. Leax, United States, (b. 1943), poetry includes: Meet the Amazing Half Man Half Pig and Given Our Disposition. Leax is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. He was professor of English and poet-in-residence at Houghton College in Houghton, New York from 1968 until his retirement in 2009. His poems, articles, and fiction have been widely published in periodicals and anthologies.
Lee, David
David Lee, United States, (contemporary) – poems include: Behold, Jubilate Agno, Loading a Boar. As a poet, David Lee has transformed the pig into a ‘being of another order.’
Lee, John B.
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.
Leggott, Michele
Michele Joy Leggott, New Zealand, (b. 1956), poetry includes: many hands – day six. Leggott is a poet, academic, essayist, and editor. She teaches English at the University of Auckland and she was named New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2008/2009.
Legris, Sylvia
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.
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Charles Godfrey Leland, United States, (1824-1903), poetry includes: The Legend of Saint Anthony. Leland was a humorist and folklorist, educated at Princeton University and in Europe. He worked in journalism, traveled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics of America and Europe.
Lennon, John
John Winston Lennon, England, (1940-1980), was an English singer, songwriter and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. He was renowned for his rebellious nature, acerbic wit and his political and peace activism.
Leslie, Shane
Ireland, (1885-1971) Muckish Mountain(The Pig’s Back) LIKE a sleeping swine upon the skyline, Muckish, thou art shadowed out, Grubbing up the rubble of the ages With your broken, granite snout. Muckish, greatest pig in Ulster’s oakwoods, Littered out of rock and fire, Deep you thrust your mottled flanks for cooling Underneath the peaty mire. … Read more
Levertov, Denise
British/United States, (1923-1997) Song for Ishtar The moon is a sow and grunts in my throat Her great shining shines through me so the mud of my hollow gleams and breaks in silver bubbles She is a sow and I a pig and a poet When she opens her white lips to … Read more