Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. His musical career has largely overshadowed his prior work as a poet and novelist, although he has continued to publish poetry sporadically after his breakthrough in the music industry.

External links

General sites on Cohen

• Official Leonard Cohen Website
• The Leonard Cohen Files - the most comprehensive Cohen site on the net; the next international convention will take place in Berlin in August 2006
• The Leonard Cohen Forum
• The Leonard Cohen Webring
• Speaking Cohen; a large archive of interviews and the "master" site for many of the sites about recent specific albums listed below.
• Diamonds in the Lines (Leonard Cohen In His Own Live Words), includes Cohen's comments on many individual songs.
• I'm Your Live Man (Leonard Cohen Concerts and Live Recordings Database), dedicated to the research of concerts and public recordings by Cohen.
• Leonard Cohen Nights Festival, an annual tribute in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The site contains both material about Cohen and about the history of the event, which is intended as a Canadian analogue to similar cultural evenings dedicated by Scottish groups to Robert Burns.
• Leonard Cohen Meetup groups

Sites about specific albums

• Dear Heather International Site
• Ten New Songs International Site
• The Essential Leonard Cohen International Site
• Field Commander Cohen: Tour Of 1979 International Site

Articles, conferences, academic papers

• Abstraction and Ambiguity in the Lyrics of Leonard Cohen
• 70 things you may not know about Leonard Cohen
• "Leonard Cohen's downbeat success"
• The Proceedings of Leonard Cohen Conference (Red Deer College, 1993)

Foreign-language sites

• Official French Leonard Cohen site.
• A Thousand Kisses Deep, Official Croatian site.