Stranger Music
Selected Poems and Songs
$32.73
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2026
Summary
Rediscover the tender, melancholic wonder of Leonard Cohen in this essential collection commemorating the 10th anniversary of his passing.
Rediscover the tender, melancholic wonder of Leonard Cohen in this essential collection of his most iconic verses. A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith and longing, his voice would come to move the world.
Stranger Music presents a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529997699 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529997690 |
| Author: | Leonard Cohen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried * Nick Cave *
As a songwriter, he is one of the artists that proved you can be poetic, abstract and deeply meaningful without over explaining yourself…The Buddhist king of cool. * Boy George *
There seems to be a Leonard Cohen line for almost every crossroads in life. Forever a thousand floors above us in the Tower of Song * Tamino *
As strong a poet as he is a musician * Guardian *
Cohen has one of the most extraordinary bodies of work * San Francisco Chronicle *
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels, and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honors, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2010), the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2011), the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics (2012), and the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year. He has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
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