![]() For some, he was a singer and a songwriter, for others he was really a poet and a writer. Throughout his long career, a debate existed over the artistic identity of Cohen. Alongside such lofty subjects, we also find references to punk Flamenco singers, accountants and Kanye West even gets a mention. ![]() What can we expect from late period Cohen? All his great themes are here: death, war, religion (both Buddhism and Judaism ) and beauty. ![]() For Cohen, just because it was his swansong, it never meant it would be sung any less sweetly. Make no mistake, this is no posthumous hack job, crudely glued together for a quick buck, The Flame is a collection that shows a writer whose fire never diminished with old age, but instead continued to burn brightly. A collection of 63 poems, the lyrics from his last four albums and a miscellaneous section of entries from the notebooks he obsessively filled throughout his life, The Flame is an opportunity to explore some of the great works in the Canadian poet and songwriter’s final years. Such was Leonard Cohen’s unhurried pace, that The Flame, his final published work has been released almost a full two years to the date since the he passed away. ![]() Chris Bateman rubs shoulders with punk Flamenco singers, accountants and death as he considers Leonard Cohen’s sweet swansongĪnd slow it was, right up to the end. ![]()
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