The Fisher (poem)

"The Fisher" is an 1898 poem by Australian poet Roderic Quinn.^[1]

It was first published in The Bulletin on 26 February 1898, ^[2] and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

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".^[3]

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin^[2] it was reprinted as follows:

• The Hidden Tide by Roderic Quinn, Bulletin, 1899^[4]
• Poems by Roderic Quinn, Angus and Robertson, 1920^[5]
• An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927^[6]
• Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946^[7]
• The Bulletin, 24 August 1949^[8]
• An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952^[9]
• A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1956^[10]
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964^[11]
• Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 edited by Adrian Mitchell and Brian Elliott, Nelson, 1970^[12]
• Australia Fair : Poems and Paintings edited by Douglas Stewart, Ure Smith, 1974^[13]
• The Collins Book of Australian Poetry edited by Rodney Hall, Collins, 1981^[14]
• The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984^[15]
• 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant, 2008^[16]

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