Poems and Songs (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Leonard Cohen was born in 1934 in Montreal. He began his career publishing poetry and prose before recording his first album in 1967. He has published two novels,The Favourite Game andBeautiful Losers, and eleven books of poetry, most recentlyStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Book of Longing,andLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs. He has to date made eighteen albums, the most recent of which,Old Ideas,was released in 2012. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011.