Windy Gap (poem)

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"Windy Gap"
by David Campbell
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publisher The Bulletin , 12 December 1951
Publication date1951
Lines18

"Windy Gap" is a poem by Australian poet David Campbell. [1]

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It was first published in The Bulletin on 12 December 1951 [2] and later in several of the author's poetry collections and a number of other Australian poetry anthologies.

Outline

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." [3]

Further publications

After its initial publication in The Bulletin in 1951, the poem was reprinted as follows:

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References

  1. 1 2 ""Windy Gap" by David Campbell". Austlit. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  2. ↑ ""Windy Gap"". The Bulletin, 12 December 1951, 27. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  3. ↑ 60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2009, pp 108-110
  4. ↑ "Australia Writes : An Anthology edited by T. Inglis Moore". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Verse (Penguin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Australian Poets Speak edited by Colin Thiele and Ian Mudie". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Selected Poems 1942-1968 by David Campbell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  8. ↑ "Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  10. ↑ "The Land's Meaning edited by L. M. Hannan and B. A. Breen". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum edited by Geoffrey Dutton". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  12. ↑ "Selected Poems by David Campbell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  13. ↑ "The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry edited by Chris Wallace-Crabb". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  14. ↑ "The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  15. ↑ "My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  16. ↑ "Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "Collected Poems by David Campbell, edited by Leonie Kramer". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  18. ↑ "Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era (Carcanet)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  19. ↑ "80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now edited by Geoff Page". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  20. ↑ "Hardening of the Light by David Campbell, edited by Philip Mead". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  21. ↑ "The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  22. ↑ "60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  23. ↑ "The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Leonard". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  24. ↑ "Sense, Shape, Symbol : An Investigation of Australian Poetry edited by Brian Keyte". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
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