Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the great and most consistently daring artists of our time. The Book of Longing is his eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, The Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music. The Book of Longing contains line drawings by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative and at times darkly humorous. The book gathers together all the elements that have brought Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.