After its initial publication in
The Bulletin in 1954 the poem was reprinted as follows: •
Australian Poetry 1954 edited by Ronald McCuaig, Angus and Robertson, 1954 •
The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by John Thompson,
Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth, Penguin Books, 1958 • ''A Beachcomber's Diary : Ninety Sea Sonnets'' by John Blight, Angus and Robertson, 1963 •
The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972 •
Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum edited by
Geoffrey Dutton, Rigby, 1976 •
Selected Poems, 1939-1975 by John Blight, Nelson, 1976 • ''What's Yours? : An Anthology of Australian Poetry'' edited by Alvie Egan, Victorian Foundation on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence, 1977 •
The Collins Book of Australian Poetry edited by Rodney Hall, Collins, 1981 •
Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984 •
The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984 •
Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O’Connor,
Oxford University Press, 1988 •
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by
John Tranter and Philip Mead, Penguin, 1991 •
Selected Poems 1939-1990 by John Blight, University of Queensland Press, 1992 •
50 Years of Queensland Poetry : 1940s to 1990s edited by Philip Neilsen and Helen Horton, Central Queensland University Press, 1998 •
The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets edited by Geoff Page, Indigo, 2003 •
100 Australian Poems You Need to Know edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant, 2008 •
60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2009 •
Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by
Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, University of NSW Press, 2011 The poem was also translated into Indonesian in 1991. ==See also==