Stranger Music
  • Published: 15 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780224038607
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $45.00

Stranger Music

Selected Poems and Songs

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1 Jul 2010
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15 Dec 1993
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Some of the best work of one of the most enduring poet/songwriters of our time collected.

Leonard Cohen's legacy is that of one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work - including the legendary songs 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel', and elections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems.

Stranger Music brings together Cohen's song lyrics and a generous selection of his poetry and is a celebration of the legendary musician's extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

'A massive record of the poet's imaginative journey, through beauty, through horror, through the extremes of love and despair, from the deepest abyss of self-abnegation to the rare and necessary moments of ecstasy. The language ranges from the exquisitely beautiful to the darkly obscene, from the romantically inspired to the ironically banal... A poetic record like no other' Toronto Star
  • Published: 15 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780224038607
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934 and published his first poetry collection in 1956. Since then he has published a number of books, including the poetry collection Let Us Compare Mythologies and the novel The Favourite Game. Renowned as a singer and performer, Leonard has recorded a number of albums, the most famous being I'm Your Man and The Future. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Praise for Stranger Music

A godsend for Cohen fans... A remarkable body of work that takes us back to the earliest days

Ottawa Citizen

A massive record of the poet's imaginative journey, through beauty, through horror, through the extremes of love and despair, from the deepest abyss of self-abnegation to the rare and necessary moments of ecstasy. The language ranges from the exquisitely beautiful to the darkly obscene, from the romantically inspired to the ironically banal... A poetic record like no other

Toronto Star

Impressive by any standard

The Globe and Mail
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