Stranger Music

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 magnificent cross section of Cohen’s most celebrated era and includes legendary songs like ‘Suzanne’, ‘I’m Your Man’ and ‘Hallelujah’ alongside selections from poetry collections such as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady’s Man.

Daring, intimate, evocative, Stranger Music illuminates the great legacy of an artist whose work transcended genres and generations.

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'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