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Arty Farty with Vincent
by Vincent S. Coster
Poems A Penny Each is changing....Hi, my name is Vincent S. Coster and I am a poet and artist from Ireland. In this podcast, I am going to look at all kinds of art, from poems, through pictures and even on occasion, music. Basically all my interests in the creative sphere. It will hopefully open the world of art to you while sharing my own takes on some well-known pieces, and some not so well know.If you would like to read my own poetry, then you can find out more about my books and how to buy them here...http://vincentscoster.blogspot.com/p/books_26.html
Episodes
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15: Everything is going to be alright by Derek Mahon.
This is the last episode of the season one, and as we are heading into a long winter of uncertainty I decided that the last poem of the season should be one of hope and consolation. So this week I will look at the poem Everything is going to be alright, by the recently deceased Derek Mahon. This...
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14: Reverse Suicide by Matt Rasmussen
Okay, a little advance warning, this poem looks at the topic of suicide, but this poem deals with the way we cope when we hear of the sad loss of a family member and the way we sometimes think about the pointless deaths of those we love. In this poem, we are taken from the moment when two…
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13: The Day Lady Died by Frank O' Hara
This week we go back in time to the work of a poet who was a famed member of the New York School of poets. This poem recounts the day that Billie Holiday died and recounts the events of that day from the poet's point of view. This poem was part of the Lunch Poems. It is an example of an elegy…
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12: Phenomenal Woman by Ciara Ní É
This week I celebrate the work of another Irish poet, one who writes in both English and Irish and mixes both languages equally throughout her poems. She is part of an amazing wave of young Irish-speakers who have shown us that there is nothing shameful in being a proud Gael, and who often use…
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11: The Preacher's Daughter by Victoria Kennefick
This week's episode looks at a poem that takes imagery and twists it so that everything is shifting and the reality we are confronted with is completely at odds at what we thought it was going to be. Drawing on the imagery of Alice in Wonderland and that of a young woman selling access to video...
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10: The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
This poem is an epic of Irish poetry. It takes its name from the translation for An Gorta Mór, the Irish name for the Great Famine of the 1840s that saw the death of one million Irish people, and the emigration of around two million more. This poem uses that iconic moment in Irish cultural and...
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9: Song of The Last Meeting by Anna Akhmatova
Sometimes, a poet is able to convey with just a few simple lines, exactly what it feels like to go through and emotional break-up. In Song of the Last Meeting, Anna Akhmatova does just that. Written in 1911, when she was only 22, this poem I think is one of the most painfully honest, and...
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8: Something a bit different,
So this week to celebrate the release of my newest book, I want to do something a little different. I want to share with you a selection of poems from my body of work that I am proud to have written, including a number of poems from my new book Oxide-Doo-La-Daisy. It comes out on Tuesday…
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7: Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
As a kid, this was one of the first poems that I ever really loved. It had everything going for it. It was about the things I did with my friends. It also had a funny twist, that made me giggle, and best of all, it used a form of the word fart. What was not to like about it? But as a poet, it…
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6: Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath is one of my favourite poets, and also one of my historical crushes. If I was to meet her I would totally fanboy like mad and go like Chandler Bing in that episode where Ross and Joey are dating the same girl who just moved into the building. Anyway, I digress. This poem is full of...
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5: Poem Without an End by Yehuda Amichai
This week I look at a poem by the greatest poet NEVER to win the Noble Prize for Literature. Yehuda Amichai was able to write about the experience of being an Israeli and Jew during the years when the state of Israel came into being and endured three military attacks from their neighbours in what...
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4: Adam's Curse by William Butler Yeats
This week I visit a poem by the grandaddy of Irish English language poetry. Adam's Curse is a sad, evocative poem that laments the attitudes of people towards those in the creative fields, the pressures and expectations placed on women to fit in with society's ideas of beauty, and also the moment...
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3: There's Been a Death, in the Opposite House.
This week I look at a poem by a writer who had a profound impact on my development from a hobbyist poet, to one who took the writing of poetry as a serious calling. This particular poem always appealed to me, no less because of the dark subject matter, but also because of the way Emily Dickinson...
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2: 7th Game: 1960 Series by Paul Blackburn
This week to celebrate the start of the baseball season, I want to look at my favourite baseball poem, 7th Game: 1960 Series. In this episode, I explain why this poem is not only the best baseball poem written to date but why, it is an amazing time capsule, taking us back to that faithful…
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1: Bullet Points by Jericho Brown.
In this week's episode, I discuss the poem Bullet Points, by Jericho Brown. Jericho Brown is an American poet whose most recent book The Tradition published by Copper Canyon Press in 2019, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem was published first in 2016 on Buzz Feed and was written in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Poems A Penny Each is changing....Hi, my name is Vincent S. Coster and I am a poet and artist from Ireland. In this podcast, I am going to look at all kinds of art, from poems, through pictures and even on occasion, music. Basically all my interests in the creative sphere. It will hopefully open the world of art to you while sharing my own takes on some well-known pieces, and some not so well know.If you would like to read my own poetry, then you can find out more about my books and how to buy them here...http://vincentscoster.blogspot.com/p/books_26.html
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