The biography of Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man by Sylvie Simmons, is a journey in the shoes of a man of greatness, a man with the ability to capture the elusive in word and song. One word stops me in my circular tracks. That word is ‘longing’. It comes up repeatedly from the title of his poetry book “Book of Longing”, to …
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You’re the voice in my Mind – Leonard Cohen tribute
Yesterday I came across a sponsored post by Weeva on Facebook calling for Letters to Leonard Cohen with a view to presenting him with a book containing these on his birthday. I love a challenge and I love Leonard Cohen. I wrote this tribute to him to fit the rhythm of ‘Bird on a Wire’ and to use the song …
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