Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen
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One of Leonard Cohen’s best loved volumes of poetry; a personal and powerful collection, popular since its original publication over thirty years ago
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the greatest writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of the last hundred years.
“PRAISE FOR LEONARD COHEN: As strong a poet as he is a musician”
guardian
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“Leonard Cohen was the poet laureate of the lack, the psalmist of the privation, who made imperfection gorgeous”
new York Times
“He is a writer of terrific energy and colour, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualiser”
observer
“Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried”
Nick Cave
“Awe-inspiring … Cohen emerges as the wry, sensual mystic his champions have always known he was”
sunday Telegraph
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
