The Fisher (poem)

"The Fisher" is an 1898 poem by Australian poet Roderic Quinn.

It was first published in The Bulletin on 26 February 1898, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

Analysis While reviewing the poet's collection The Hidden Tide for The Critic (Adelaide) a reviewer singled out the poem for "painting a picture clearly and with poetic insight, in some well-polished verses".

Further publications

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:

The Hidden Tide by Roderic Quinn, Bulletin, 1899 Poems by Roderic Quinn, Angus and Robertson, 1920 An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927 Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946 The Bulletin, 24 August 1949 An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952 A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1956 From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964 Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 edited by Adrian Mitchell and Brian Elliott, Nelson, 1970 Australia Fair : Poems and Paintings edited by Douglas Stewart, Ure Smith, 1974 The Collins Book of Australian Poetry edited by Rodney Hall, Collins, 1981 The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant, 2008

See also 1898 in poetry 1898 in literature 1898 in Australian literature Australian literature

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