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Stranger Music
  • Published: 5 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529997699
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99

Stranger Music

Selected Poems and Songs

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5 Dec 2026
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15 Dec 1993
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1 July 2010
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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 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

  • Published: 5 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529997699
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

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 honours, 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, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and 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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Praise for Stranger Music

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