A Convict's Tour of Hell

The poem has appeared under the alternate titles of "A Tour to Hell" and "A Convict's Tour of Hell".^[1]

After the poem's initial publication in The Cumberland Times in 1900^[1] it was reprinted as follows:

• Frank the Poet : The Life and Works of Francis MacNamara edited by John Meredith and Rex Whalan, Red Rooster Press, 1979^[6]
• The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Les Murray, Oxford University Press, 1986^[7]
• The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse edited by Philip Neilson, Penguin, 1986^[8]
• The Irish-Australian Connection (An Caidream Gael-Astralach) edited by Seamus Grimes and Gearoid O Tuathaigh, University College Galway, 1988^[9]
• Exiles from Erin : Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia edited by Bob Reece, Macmillan, 1991^[10]
• The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss, Penguin, 1993^[11]
• The Sting in the Wattle : Australian Satirical Verse edited by Philip Neilsen, University of Queensland Press, 1993^[12]
• A Working Forest : Selected Prose by Les Murray, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1997^[13]
• Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology edited by John Leonard, Oxford University Press, 1998^[14]
• The Turning Wave : Poems and Songs of Irish Australia edited by Colleen Burke and Vincent Woods, Kardoorair Press, 2001^[15]
• Hell and After : Four Early English-language Poets of Australia edited by Les Murray, Carcanet, 2005^[16]
• An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007^[17]
• 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant, 2008^[18]
• Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Nicholas Jose, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Anita Heiss, David McCooey, Peter Minter, Nicole Moore, and Elizabeth Webby, Allen and Unwin, 2009^[19]

• Australian cultural historian Warren Fahey used the poem as the basis for an episode of his Sydney Stories historical video series^[20]