Try this link: http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/buzz.html I feel antiquated for browsing like a librarian through stacks of Intensity while the poem in question is (as of course it would be) glaring off a page on this search-engine-equipped website. It's like speculating about the availability of L...

I perused my eight or so issues of the discontinued fan magazine Intensity four times in a row. I failed to turn up the earlier poem version of Undertow which must be in there somewhere. How else could I have learnt it by heart (see below)? I even found a piece of paper onto which I had copied the p...

Henning, do you have the original poem from Intensity? Courtois posted it somewhere here. I will also look through my issues of Intensity, and - unless someone is faster than I am - post any information given about Undertow. Funny: the other day on this board we discussed the dvd of Ladies and Gent...

For those of you interested in the personage of F. from Beautiful Losers: I'm reading Claudius the God, a marvellous historical novel by Robert Graves. (It's the sequel to I, Claudius, and the two books were made into an acclaimed television series.) Claudius the God is the story of the 1st-century ...

Thanks for the info, Margaret. I see on Amazon that Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen is even available as a DVD. Perhaps this goes a way to indicating that there is a demand for Leonard Cohen reciting his poetry...

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Courtois, have you heard Leonard read the poem that starts out, "I heard of a man who says words so beautifully."? I'm not sure what song, but Tori Amos uses it as a preface to one of hers. He does declame well! Do you have, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen."? His talent...

To a Teacher is, at least at the moment, my favourite piece (one can hardly say song) on Dear Heather. The text has the most intricate figures of speech of all the texts on the album. As such the text is more akin to the lyrics up to and including The Future than to the prevailing lyrical minimalism...

Hello Tom, maybe you could approach the people who were behind Intensity (Bea de Koning and Yvonne Hakze of the Netherlands) to see if they have copies left, or can make copies, and to discuss Internet publication. (However, much of the magazine, at least in its final years when I received it, was c...

Thanks all. I hope it's no copyright problem giving the alternate words to Undertow here. I learned them by heart from an issue of Intensity, the fan magazine that has been discontinued. I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think this poem has appeared in a volume of poetry. I set out for love but I d...

Throughout Leonard Cohen's career his poems have ended up as songs , often altered to a greater or lesser extent. Most such poems were already lyrical in nature (rhyme, metre), but there is also the bulkier Queen Victoria with acoustic accompaniment on Live Songs. A lot of poetry has been joined wit...