Leonard Cohen’s life is ultimately a story of enlightenment and redemption, says Richard Fitzpatrick

My Flirtation with International Socialism

IN the very first poem of his beautiful new book, Theo Dorgan declares his loyalty and his aesthetic impulse:

‘Two or three decades of formidable theatrical achievement is more evanescent than the froth on a cappuccino: half-remembered moments in the memories of committed older theatre-goers, but no contemporary currency at all.’