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!

Naive painting of the backs of two people sitting on a wall, one has a red headscarf and orange skirt, one is dressed in black
Wind-up people
photo of Katrina Naomi in a green fifties dress and with a yellow flower in her hair
Photo of Vanessa Kisuule standing in front of a green and purple wall. She is looking to her right and smiling.
a watercolour with multicoloured ribbons with arrow shaped ends swirling on a blue textured background. There are some rectangle frames at a variety of angles.
Part of a painting of an Old Testament scene where white-bearded patriarch Methuselah has instructed Noah to open a prophetic scroll which foretells the flood sent by God. Circling ravens add to the sense of foreboding, while antediluvian revellers continue their dancing in the middle distance, oblivious of the devastation to come.
About the Building
Book cover of 'Time' by Etel Adnan
Tellisford Weir
The February Museum: recent acquisitions
Insomnia
Silhouette of a woman's face looking to the right of the image, her features are obscured be autumnal trees superimposed on the silhouette