Windy Gap (poem)

A shepherd, moving his sheep through Windy Gap, is transfixed by a hawk and a magpie who seem to bring the world around him into sharper focus. ==Critical reception==

In his commentary on the poem in 60 Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page noted "You can almost see the Akubra, the Drizabone and the R. M. Williams boots; you can practically smell the horse sweat though none of these is mentioned. You can feel seventeenth- and nineteenth-century English verse in the background, but you don’t doubt for a minute it's Australian." ==Further publications==

After its initial publication in The Bulletin in 1951, the poem was reprinted as follows: • Australia Writes : An Anthology edited by T. Inglis Moore, Cheshire, 1953 • The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth, Penguin Books, 1958 • Australian Poets Speak edited by Colin Thiele and Ian Mudie, Rigby, 1961 • Vision Vol 1 No 1, Jun 1963 • Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien, Rigby, 1968 • The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972 • ''The Land's Meaning'' edited by L. M. Hannan and B. A. Breen, Macmillan, 1973 • Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum edited by Geoffrey Dutton, 1976 • Selected Poems by David Campbell, Angus and Robertson, 1978 • The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Melbourne University Press, 1980 • The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984 • My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer, Lansdowne, 1985 • Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1988 • Collected Poems by David Campbell, edited by Leonie Kramer, Angus and Robertson, 1989 • Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era edited by Les Murray, Carcanet, 1994 • 80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2006 • Hardening of the Light by David Campbell, edited by Philip Mead, Indigo, 2006 • The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella, Penguin, 2009 • 60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2009 • The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Leonard, Puncher & Wattmann, 2009 • Sense, Shape, Symbol : An Investigation of Australian Poetry edited by Brian Keyte, Phoenix Education, 2013 ==See also==