I first came across Leonard Cohen in the early months of 1968 when I was living on Baffin Island. Leonard Cohen had come to the music industry relatively late, having already established himself as a published novelist and poet. He turned his hand to music when his song Suzanne became a hit for Judy...

To apply to the source of mercy....I found that the art of writing was the proper form for my prayers. -Leonard Cohen, Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Ira B. Nadel, Bloomsbury Pub. Co Inc., London, 1991(?), p.237. Anything done in the spirit of service is prayer, but their special verses...

Price had lived a life, not of wandering from town to town, although it might have appeared that way, but of attachment to a new world Faith that had been growing unobtrusively for his forty years of active involvement in it. There had been some despair, some depression, but little freedom from resp...

COHEN’S SHISH KEBAB After finishing my writing and reading last night it was a little after 2 a.m. I went downstairs and turned on the TV to rest my eyes and brain before going to bed. I was surprised to see Leonard Cohen in an interview on one of the Australian TV stations.1 The interview inspired ...