In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...
Leonard Cohen's songs are poems, but not every poem he wrote became a song. These are a mix of some of his definitive works that define Cohen as a wordsmith.
As the split title infers, this poem is a combination of Lochhead’s own memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and a love poem written for her husband. Despite its distinctly autobiographical nature ...