Books by Leonard Cohen

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen's work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

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 final collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen, introduced by his son Adam Cohen

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed - characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and 'F' at the novel's start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion.Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.

An anthology that includes such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and poems from many collections including "Flowers for Hitler", "Beautiful Losers" and "Death of a Lady's Man".

When his fist album was released in 1967, the author was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' popular recording of 'Suzanne'. This book includes lyrics from that album, together with many of his classics, such as 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel'.

Omdrejningspunktet for Leonard Cohens mest læste roman, Smukke tabere, er de tre hovedpersoners intrikate kærligheds- og elskovstrekant samt deres særdeles fejlbarlige personligheder. Den navnløse hovedperson, hans kone Edith og deres mystiske ven og mentor ’F’ deler en stor fascination og erotisk lyst rettet mod Catherine Tekakwitha, en 1600-talshelgen, som var en del af mohawk-stammen. Deres fælles fantasier om hende udbygges hurtigt, men den komplekse trekant smadres, da Edith og ’F’ dør i starten af romanen, og hovedpersonen tvinges til at konfrontere sit eget syn på smerte, kærlighed, troskab og lidenskab i en stribe erotiske flashbacks.Smukke tabere er Leonard Cohens mest læste og fejrede litterære værk. Romanen udkom, før Cohen begyndte sin karriere som sanger og sangskriver, og den dag i dag er den bredt læst i hele verden og betragtes som den første egentlige post-moderne roman i Canada. Smukke tabere mimer den mørke poesi og tørre humor i Cohens tidsløse sangtekster om tab, kærlighed, sex og religion.