Music For Canadians

On the cusp of Canada Day, July 1, Eyewear is pleased to note a new review of Leonard Cohen's latest collection, Book of Longing, in the TLS (June 30 2006).

It's written by Pico Iyer (see link below), no stranger to Cohen's Northern Comforts.

I am currently completing my own review, for NPR, so won't say more here.

One aspect worthy of mention - the Iyer article on Cohen is under the heading "Music" - not "Poetry".

Canadians may find it irritating to realise that, outside his own country, LC is not considered so much a writer-turned-singer as vice versa - as if his towering intellect had been muffled by his tower of song.

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/iyer.html