Hi all, My brother gets the LRB and said he would forward something to me. It turns out to be that one Robert Crawford has turned parts of the first half of Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas into a 2000-word poem. To my mind it's very good! Technically the poem is up at https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n14/robert-crawford/tank but it seems like you need a subscription to read it. The third stanza: "Parched, in shirt and shorts, among parking Tanks and trucks jumbled together, I blether, marking Places on this cellophane map case with a chinagraph pencil, And eye faces - one red with half-dead dry skin Cracking on lips and nose; flannel shirt, ripped trousers, done-in Shoes, blue-check handkerchief twisted round bruised neck; Our rations new tins of beef, two Of white potatoes, bright Spick-and-span tins of canned bacon rashers, Pocked fruit, condensed milk. Pair of clean socks: right Stuffed with tea; left with rough, course sugar" PS I think if you create an account you can read one article for free each month, which could be the poem.
