The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

The Friday Poem

Welcome to The Friday Poem Archive. During 2021 – 2024 we published original poems, reviews of poetry collections & pamphlets, and features about poetry, here on this site. There are more than 700 posts for you to browse – this page displays a random selection, refresh the page for more, or you can use the Search function or do an Archive search, both top right, if you know what you’re looking for. Now The Friday Poem posts on Substack – come and take a look. You can subscribe, also top right, or via our Substack – if you do, you’ll get a post in your inbox on most Friday mornings ready for you to enjoy with your mid-morning beverage. Keep on poeting, poets!

A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background
Black background with the face of a china doll, cracked, with piercing blue eyes.
Book cover of 'Time' by Etel Adnan
Coda
A poem laid out a page in the shape of a bird. It looks old.
Bookshelf photograph showing various titles and...inexplicably a glass of water. Water? Absinthe maybe...but water?
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, dressed in yellow, striding forward into the projected fantasy of her come-back
Avid alt text readers will notice that sometimes I am at a loss to pull meaning from a bewildering array of abstract book covers, this one is more figurative in nature, though not entirely clear. It appears to be painting of a crystal fruit bowl with what looks like an explosion of silhouetted grapes ... or cherries ... fruit anyway ... or maybe berries.
Montage showing three book covers. They are similar – each has a black background with a number of different coloured triangles superimposed. The chaps at Ignition press like triangles, I guess. Who am I to judge?
Black and white composite image of Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards.
Four black and white head shots of the poets in this article arranged in a grid
A waterfall on a foggy mountainside. It's high, and the middle of ... well, you get it.