The Wreck of the Hesperus Felicia Hemans rather than to Longfellow). Additionally, in Kevin Sullivan's 1985 film of "Anne of Green Gables", a character recites "The Wreck of the Hesperus" prior to Anne's rousing rendition of "The Highwayman". "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is also mentioned in the 2017 Woody Allen film "Wonder Wheel". "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is referenced in the comic song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, performed by Groucho Marx in the movie "At the Circus" (1939); by Virginia Weidler in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940); by Robin Williams in "The Fisher King" (1991); by Kermit the
Roy Fisher previous published work. In 1992 the poet and film maker Tom Pickard produced a documentary about Fisher with funding from the Arts Council called "Birmingham’s What I Think With". Fisher wrote a sequence of poems for the film describing the city of his birth. These were published by OUP in 1994 along with other new work in a collection titled "Birmingham River". The collaboration with Ronald King continued with "Top Down Bottom Up" published in 1989, and "Anansi Company" appearing in 1991. A pamphlet, "It Follows That", issued by Pig Press, also appeared in 1994. In 1996 Bloodaxe published "Dow