Poems Online

You can read some of Vincent's poems, which are listed below. Simply pick the poem you want to read, click on the title and let the internet do the rest.

*The version of these two poems featured on this page was originally written as individual poems but were put together to form a longer poem on Eat Not My Brother called Triptych Of A Doomed Romance. I have kept these versions as being the original version which did not feature in any collection. Hence their not having a collection title beside them.

Poems

Uncollected Poems

• De Profundis
• Requiem On The Day of His Passing
• Waiting Room
• The Tactless Question
• Reminiscences Of Naomi*
• I Tell You Death
• A Short Ode to Naomi C*
• Mushrooms
• On the Melbury Abbas CSW Falsely Claiming Motorists Are Speeding 
• Dream Swimming
• Romantic Gestures 
• Autumn Haiku
• Sir Ian Botham
• This Too Shall Pass

Irish Poems

• Imeoidh na Laethanta Seo go Luath
• An Darma Na Cró Madra
• An Gealbhan Binne 
• Béalghrá+
• Oibreacha Bóthair (Nó litir gearr do Comhairlí i Dorset)+
• Cad é An Torann Seo?
• Fandango i Táinséirín
• An Mullach
• Pocaire Gaoithe/ Kestrel (Irish and English versions)
• Tá Málaí Plaisteach Cosúil Díreach le Smugairle Rón

Collected Poems

Oxide-Doo-La-Daisy (2020)

• Dirge on the Passing of My Pet Rabbit
• Ode to a Philosophical Wood-pigeon 
• Summit
• Baby Photo
• On hiding in a Graveyard
• Morning by the River
• The Fighting Temeraire
• Flight
• Thoughts on the 15th Anniversary of 9-11

Quartet No.1 [On a Theme of Time] (2019)

• Excerpt: Stanzas 2-3 of First Quartet +

Little Paper Fishes: (2018)

• Gravity's Rainbow
• Does The Universe Smell?
• Bi-Polar Banana
• Meadbh Otherman
• What Is A Man?
• Daffodils (For Rebecca Keatley)
• Burns Night
• To Be A Girl
• The Canvasser
• Lovers At The Berlin Wall

Eat Not My Brother: (2015)

• Eat Not My Brother
• I Can Tell You Nothing- An Excerpt from This Bird's Gonna Fly
• The Domestic
• When I Get There- Crossing Borders
• Lines Written On The Eve Of Leaving Ireland
• Articles of F'Hate
• Under A Big Sky
• They're Sleeping and I'm Dancing
• Beautiful Insensitivity

Poems From Another Shore: (2013)

• Roll Of Honour
• Harvest

The Spirit Of Youth: (2012)

• New Moon Potatoes
• Keep It Punky
• The Spirit of Youth (Cans of Stella)
• An Obsessive Compulsive's Thoughts on Washing His Hands

Nocturnes: (2011)

• Roses For Ashes

There Are Words: (2009)

• The Spider and The Fly
• The Drunken Man
• Citadel
• On Your Knees 
• Moonrise On Southern Cross
• The Sea

The Folk Hero Midget: (2001)

• Autobiography 
• Forbidden Fruit
• A Working Class Zero
• Portrait Of The Poet As A Fruitcake

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The right of Vincent S. Coster to be identified as the author of the poems in this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. No poems can be reproduced without the author's written consent.