To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, when the student is ready, the Leonard Cohen song will appear. Philosopher king and ladies’ man, poet and ordained Buddhist monk, aesthete and pilgrim — in ...

From 1994 to 1999, poet and novelist turned singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen resided at a Buddhist retreat on California's Mt. Baldy. There, he was given the Dharma name Jikan, meaning "the silent ...

Here below, we wanted to examine three songs of Cohen’s—in particular, the opening lines of three of his songs. You only get one shot at a first impression and these songs hit the nail on the head.

“When Dylan emerged, he blew everyone’s mind,” said Allen Ginsberg. “Everybody except Leonard Cohen, that is.” Ginsberg was right, of course. Even before Bob Dylan transformed modern songwriting with ...

Leonard Cohen was already an accomplished poet when his debut album reached stores in 1967, but the simply titled LP introduced the world to a major new musical voice.

8th January 1980: Solemn Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen shares a joke and smokes a cigarette. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, ...

Poetry, fiction and songwriting were more or less equal forms of expression to Leonard Cohen – although one paid a hell of a lot better than the others. After mastering the mystical power of melody, ...

Liner Notes Explore Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen (in 5 Minutes) Leonard Cohen was already an accomplished poet when his debut album reached stores in 1967, but the simply titled LP ...

Celebrate a dozen of Cohen’s most famous songs from 2008 and 2009 world tour performances. Celebrate one dozen of the songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist Leonard Cohen's most famous songs ...

Jen Webb receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. If anyone can ...

Hipgnosis Song Management has acquired the song catalog of Leonard Cohen, poet, novelist, performer and one of the most influential songwriters of the past 50 years. The Canadian-born artist, who died ...

The work unearthed after Leonard Cohen’s death at age 82 in 2016 contemplated the soul, the Holocaust, and hip-hop. “Kanye West Is Not Picasso” went the title of one poem in Cohen’s posthumously ...