"Remittance Man" is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright.
The "remittance man" of the title has been disgraced in Britain and sent by his family to make a new life in Australia.
This will be enough to feed him though he will have to keep seeking casual employment to ensure he lives in some sort of comfort.
While reviewing the poet's collection A Human Pattern : Selected Poems critic Beverley Brahic commented that "As Heaney reveals rural Northern Ireland to us, so Wright trains her refreshingly flinty eye on the settlers of rural Australia.
'Remittance Man' is not Heaneyesque in its irony or in its way of telling rather than evoking with sensuous detail and rich music, but it too delineates the contours of life in a place most people who aren't natives of that place don't think much about.