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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 probably better known as a singer/songwriter, but anyone who's
> learned anything about Cohen knows that he was a poet first.

Even Pendragon should have known that by now.