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!

Return to Ithaca by Mark McDonnell in black text on white with a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob over the word 'Ithaca'
The Unicyclist of Benghazi
Edwin Morgan in front of a large bookcase
A window at night with twilight streaming through. Or it could be a streetlight. Twilight is more poetic though, innit?
Photo of a meat market porter at work
head and shoulders photo of Mike Laskey looking a bit poetic in a red jumper and black beret (Breton rather than Basque, going by the dimensions) against blue sky and a bit of beach and sea
Airborne
A pink square-shaped speech bubble on a dark blue background.
Picture of Emma smiling with shoulder length brown hair wearing blue shirt and dungarees sitting behind a table full of books.
Bookshelf photograph showing various titles and...inexplicably a glass of water. Water? Absinthe maybe...but water?
Folio
Photograph of Helen Evans. She has short grey hair and is clasping her hands and leaning to her left.