![]() ![]() These poems and lyrics are as startling and stirring, as clever, funny and sorrowful as we came to expect from a poet/singer/songwriter. The blending of the earthy with the spiritual would give John Donne and Marvin Gaye a run for their money * * Guardian * * Included in various proportions are love, sex, death, regret, exaltation, piety and gentle fondness. The Flame shows the emphasis that Cohen put on distillation. We'll be listening to Cohen - still smirking and smiling - for decades to come, with this collection as our companion * * Spectator * *įor his final publication, he left almost nothing to chance. His gift for understated melancholia is on each blackening page * * Daily Mail, Best Books of 2018 * * ![]() Encompassing poems and lyrics written in his last decade, as well as self-portraits and notebook extracts, the book is introduced by his son Adam Cohen * * Financial Times, Best Poetry Books of 2018 * *Ĭohen's enduring, beautiful bleakness is the draw here. Words are his old comrades, and see him through to the end - Kate Kellaway * * Observer, Poetry book of the month * *Ĭohen was a poet before he was a musician, and with this posthumous collection his career completes its circle. Leonard Cohen does not use language to pose, startle or reinvent. ![]() Full of youthful spark, beauty and romance. ![]()
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