![]() ![]() ![]() Poetry and music are not one and the same. ![]() It was Leonard Cohen, more so than anyone in the last century (including Dylan), who broke down the barriers between the two art forms. I have no qualms about giving the award to a figure best known for their music rather than their poetry but they gave it to the wrong one. When Bob Dylan became the first musician to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 some hailed the move as innovative, others lamented it as a nostalgic nod to a man past his musical and poetic prime. ![]()
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