The Wandering Islands (1955) is the first poetry collection by Australian poet A. D. Hope.
[1] "He was talked into publishing his first book in 1956 when two young printers who had inherited a printing press wrote and told him of some fine paper they had acquired.
"[2] In a retrospective of A. D. Hope's work originally published in The Times Literary Supplement, Clive James wrote: "The first collection of poems by A.D. Hope, The Wandering Islands, belatedly appeared in 1955, and consolidated the position he had already established as the leading Australian poet of his time.
Australia was still a censored country and several of Hope's poems dared to mention the particularities of sexual intercourse.
Without his air of authority, Hope might never have got his book into the shops before old age supervened.