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On 2022-05-31 12:58 a.m., George J. Dance wrote:
> On 2022-05-30 10:11 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
>> Your ignorance is showing again, Pendragon.
>>
>> Leonard Cohen was a successful poet years before he became a Folk Rock
>> singer.
>>
>
> Indeed he was.
>
> "In 1961, McClelland & Stewart published Cohen's 2nd collection, The
> Spice-Box of Earth (1961), which received rave reviews and sold out its
> 1st printing. The book made him a public figure in Canada.[12] The book
> also helped Cohen gain critical recognition as an important new voice in
> Canadian poetry. Cohen biographer Ira Nadel stated that "reaction to the
> finished book was enthusiastic and admiring.... The critic Robert Weaver
> found it powerful and declared that Cohen was 'probably the best young
> poet in English Canada right now.'"[13]
>
>> HTH and HAND.
>
> He's better known as a singer/songwriter, but anyone who's
> learned anything about Cohen knows that he was a poet first.

I decided to edit out "probably" - I don't think there's any doubt that
Cohen's songwriting is better known than his poetry.