Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni

Guest writer

Tanya Dalziell is Associate Professor, English and Literary Studies, University of Western Australia. Paul Genoni is Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University

Hydra 1960, including Leonard Cohen (bearded, left) and Redmond Wallis (centre right in cotton shirt).
Photographer unknown. Reproduced with the permission of Dorothy Wallis.

Leonard Cohen’s amazing island life, and the New Zealander who documented it

Cohen went to Hydra in 1960 in search of sunshine, succour and sex. He found it - alongside a friend from New Zealand.

By Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni | 28th October, 2018