Music was always the thing closest to me, and I saw poetry as part of that. My early poetry was very much influenced by Scottish Border ballads, the Spanish flamenco songs, the Portuguese fado.

 

Leonard Cohen

 

Conversations from a Room by Tom Chaffin. Canadian Forum: August/September 1983. Photo by Pete Purnell.

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally postedJune 2, 2014 at DrHGuy.com, a predecessor of Cohencentric.