Vincent S. Coster: The Poetry
Besides his visual arts work, Vincent S. Coster is also a poet, in fact, poetry was the beginning of his creative journey.
The Beginning:
Vincent S. Coster began writing poetry as a kid after reading a book about a kid who staved off being in trouble with his parents for missing school when his mother discovered he had “the gift” of poetry.
Hoping that such a gift would help him get out of trouble, he started writing poems, learning that he did have a gift for poetry, but that writing poems also did not prevent him from getting in trouble.
After that, I dabbled in the occasional poetry, mostly to allay boredom or to impress a girl.
Then in 1996, he decided to write poetry seriously, realising that while jobs and other things would come and go, being a poet was something that nobody could ever take from him.
The Career
From that moment on, he took this practice seriously. Emily Dickinson’s work inspired his early work, but he quickly began to open up and read other poets, which informed his writing method. Foremost of these influences were Jack Kerouac, Patrick Kavanagh, and Samuel Menashe.
In 2000, he self-published his first collection, The Folk Hero Midget.
There Are Words, 2008.
The Spirit of Youth, 2012.
Poems from Another Shore, 2013.
Eat Not My Brother, 2015.
Little Paper Fishes, 2018.
Quartet No.1 On a Theme of Time, 2019
Oxide-doo-la-daisy, 2020
The Rooftops of Jerusalem, 2023.
He also published the anthologies Subject Objectivity: The Selected Poems 1996-2015 in 2016 and Live In Berlin in 2019.
He reissued his first four books on Amazon in 2016 and, since then, has self-published his work that way. He also publishes regularly on his Substack feed, The You Norker.
