Vincent S. Coster

"I set out from the beginning with the desire and belief... that I would become the poetic oracle of my race."

Vincent S. Coster is an Irish-born poet who now lives in England where he continues to write poetry and the occasional short story. He began writing poetry as a way of venting the frustrations of being an outsider in a small rural village in Ireland when he was twelve, but it wasn’t until he was nineteen that he decided to take up the vocation of poetry as a serious craft.

Since then he has tirelessly worked on developing his poetic voice with a determination to take up the mantle as the ''Poetic Oracle of his race,'' and sees himself as the heir apparent to Seamus Heaney in the line of great Irish poets stretching back to WB Yeats. His main style is the loose free form lyrical poetry which was used to great effect by Seamus Heaney, and like Heaney and Kavanagh he tries to tell the story of the Irish people from the perspective not only of that nation's struggles to find its place in the world, but from that of the individual and parochial struggles faced by the Irish people who are part of the diaspora, who try to find their place among the world's nations as individuals.

He has published a pamphlet of Gothic poetry on Kindle

Nocturnes (2011)

And five collections

The Folk Hero Midget (2001)

There Are Words (2009)

The Spirit Of Youth (2012)

Poems From Another Shore (2013)

Eat Not My Brother (2015)

He has also published two short novellas on Kindle

The Ballad of Kieran Murtagh

The Breaks