Mine'd go:

Stories of the Street
A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes
Avalanche
Who By Fire
Death of a Ladies' Man
The Guests
Hallelujah
First We Take Manhattan
Closing Time
In My Secret Life
Dear Heather

I'm a sucker for a well written blurb - good on your for taking the matter seriously. Unfortunately, I'm not a muso, so I'm crap at identifying genres and sub-genres. I thought it sounded like mellow, slanted-rain folk-hop with a twist of blues spirit. The voice is a little Bright Eyes-esque, n'est ...

Well.... I tend not to read them. Or, if we're talking Chaucer, I don't really think of it as a poem when I'm reading it. Sorry you don't like the trimming - only a suggestion, as I said. I am simply off the 'less is more' persuasion, and most of what I cut out was what I found redundant (ie. you co...

Kitschy?? My main trouble is either with mortified expressions ("He likes Leonard Cohen. He must be a miserable little sod.") or people nodding merrily and commenting, "Good to slit the old wrists to, eh?" My usual response is a rather lame attempt to prove that he's actually ver...

I thought 'Never Any Good' was a wasted opportunity. The lyrics are great, but the tune is among the worst LC's come up with, a mon avis. I wish he'd rework it, or publish it as a poem!

I think the concept/scene is a strong one. Initially, too long for my tastes, and I felt it was too prosaic. Perhaps you could experiment with a more clipped style eg. Exiting the library at school, I bore the cold and sat upon a bench. There, by the freshly cut grass, I met a gardener (The line aft...

Yeees.... I should really have explained the concept here. Sorry. Firstly, gothic looking guy is me. Item is samurai sword. Mary Read was the name of a famous female pirate. The book is... let's see... a tribute to the dead poet genre. That is, I thought it would be fun to design it around the idea ...

Thought I might give this a mention too. Very good European-based writer's site, open to everyone else as well. Two 'publishing' days a week - Monday and Friday - when the week's submissions are all uploaded at once, and members flock there to critique each other's work (although the criqituing can ...

Excellent. Yes, this is one of those forums I tend to 'lurk' in - I like reading the threads... Anyhow, third down on the right: 'I'll Show You Tyrants' http://ukapress.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=27 You can read extracts from the book, obviously. Very hard to find an audien...

My impression of the song is that it's a mile away from taking sides over issues such as pro-American/anti-American, pro-Islan/anti-Islam. Hasn't Cohen said several times - particularly during interviews around the time of 'The Future' - that such dualism is an inappropriate response to the situatio...

Are plugs for LC-inspired poetry allowed here, or is this a dismissable offence?

Happy birthday, Leonard Cohen!

I've registered on this board just to say that.