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!

Visions of Juana
illustration showing a woman with blue skin covered in images, light blue leaves intertwine with pink flowers, a yellow sun on each breast.
The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background
Illustration showing an open Hand with what loloks like a ribbon running over the palm. On closer inspection the ribbon is a road with a small car on it.
Black and white photograph of Sylvia Plath looking directly at the camera. There are bookshelves in the background. It can't be that warm because she's wearing a woolly cardigan with a plaid trim under the buttons.
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.
An old map of Limehouse in London, the colour is predominantly blue
Monochrome photograph showing the silhouette of a woman standing on a small rock in the sea.
Studley Royal Water Gardens Temple of Fame
Collateral
abstract image of a blurred blue head on a blue background with yellow red and green leaf like paint splurges running down the left hand side
Bright purple background with a light coloured wavy line in a loose arch