The publisher of a short-lived student magazine in the 1980s is appealing to readers to find the author of an anonymous "exceptional" poem about Israel and Palestine.
Martin Bright, who published a three-issue run of a magazine as a student at Cambridge in the mid 1980s, wants to talk to them about their poem which he described as “an incredibly sensitive take” on the conflict.
The poem, entitled 'Field Navigation Exercise', describes being in the Israeli Defence Force and was likely written by someone who made Aliyah or joined the IDF from the UK, Mr Bright suspects.
One stanza reads: “Our shepherd smiles / as his father smiled at Tommies, / as his grandfather smiled at Turks, / passive, he is saying, ‘Romans / made this road that guides you / through your own country, / when I know better, the way.’”
