The Spice-Box of Earth

"The Spice-Box of Earth" is Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen's second collection of poetry. It was first published in 1961 by McClelland and Stewart. The book brought the then 27 year-old poet a measure of early literary acclaim. Many poems have been anthologized in Canadian school textbooks.

Following "The Spice-Box of Earth", Cohen retreated for several years to the treeless Argolic island of Hydra in Greece, where he began work on the far more angular and abrasive poems collected in "Flowers for Hitler" in 1964.

Cohen would record his own music for the first time in 1967.