Book worm - Leonard Cohen at 80 is still your only man

John Boland

Just ahead of his 80th birthday on Sunday week, there's an excellent new poem by Leonard Cohen in last week's edition of the New Yorker.

Chosen by Paul Muldoon, who's the poetry editor of that August publication, Almost Like The Blues is Cohen at his most poised and sardonic - and at his most urgent, too, in its musings on the sorry state of our violent world: