Hard Cover, 48pp, bound in signatures.

David Haskell Cohen was born in Calcutta in 1925. His first poem, Reading, was written at the age of sixteen and another early poem, If I Could, appeared in The Times Illustrated Weekly of India in 1949.

After a hiatus of some forty years in London—during which he was first a political news correspondent, and later creative director and owner of an advertising agency in Mayfair—David Cohen resumed writing poetry upon his retirement and move to Jerusalem.

The poems in this, his second collection look at the challenges of and to modern Israel, of being a believing Jew, and of retirement, through eyes at once thoughtful, penetrating and whimsical.

An earlier collection of poems, The Glance of an Eye is also published by Yonaty.

I saw a line of purple blossoms lying
Along a city roadside drain
And there were golden petals sighing
Shaken down by wind and rain –
Surely hints which heaven ever flings
Upon our laboured, dowdy, man-made things