The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: poetry

  • Echtrai

    Echtrai

    An interview with Baz Nichols, editor of Echtrai, a new art and literary journal exploring landscapes lost, abandoned, forgotten, mythic.

  • A Good Life / Subsistence

    A Good Life / Subsistence

    Two poems with accompanying artwork by Linnea Ryshke, extracts from Kindling (Lantern Publishing and Media, September 2021).

  • The Place Where Things Cannot be Measured

    The Place Where Things Cannot be Measured

    Before Assumptions / The Place Where Things Cannot Be Measured: two new poems taking inspiration from the natural world by Cabot Sayles.

  • I Recall Recalling Straw

    I Recall Recalling Straw

    New poetry from the fields by Mark Goodwin, with accompanying artwork by Dominique Cameron.

  • Lille Gris

    Lille Gris

    Lille Gris was dreamt up before Brexit and Covid-19 changed everything. In December 2017 an invitation arrived to participate in an exhibition programme at the North Atlantic Lighthouse in Hanstholm, Denmark. This presented an ideal opportunity to open new dialogues on the welfare and intelligence of farmed pigs. In our previous work, CARNEVALE, Cath Keay…

  • Meadow Grass / Unmake the Land

    Meadow Grass / Unmake the Land

    “In the tracks of grazing cattle and the oak tree’s swell” – a pair of new poems about labour and the land by writer Hannah Green.

  • Essays on Dog Walking, I & II

    Essays on Dog Walking, I & II

    Two poems from Thinking with Trees, the brilliant debut collection from Jason Allen-Paisant – published by Carcanet.

  • Le Président / The Crocodile Feeder

    Le Président / The Crocodile Feeder

      Le Président: Seven Days In the beginning, Le President, flattened his ancestral villagei, to create his idea of heaven. “Let there be no jungle”; & there was no jungle. He razed the earth with excavators to make space for his creations. & He made the low-lying metal sheds & maquis disappear. & He cloaked…

  • In the PoemGarden

    In the PoemGarden

    A personal essay by Professor Alice Entwistle of the University of South Wales exploring the many connections between poetry and gardening,

  • Eternal Forest

    Eternal Forest

    Extracts from Eternal Forest, an art project by Evgenia Emets which transforms human relationships with biodiversity, time and the sacred.

  • Toast to the Spring / waveformed

    Toast to the Spring / waveformed

      Toast to the Spring   Black fangs to the east, badlands to the west, the world beyond — glaciers, jungles, dunes and meadows — and home, the garden and the spinney. Lemon seed, a splash of you. A toast. A thousand years in limestone prison. A minute in the sunshine, drowned in the ocean….