Canada's Globe and Mail held an unofficial poll to select the nation's first poet laureate.
And melancholist songwriter
Leonard Cohen won by a landslide, getting 59%. His nearest rival was Margaret Atwood, with 19%.
Unfortunately, as he lives in Los Angeles, he is probably ineligible for the post.
(via bOING bOING)
I heard Cohen was doing the whole ascetic Buddhist monastery thing at the moment.