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!

Anne-Marie Fyfe sitting on a wooden boardwalk in Massachusetts. Wearing a red jacket and a white scarf with dark blue stars around her neck.
A rust red concrete slab wall with words "The Dereliction" written in stencil font.
photo of Helen Ivory looking up at the sky wearing a black top with a little lacy white collar, red earrings, red lippy and black sunglasses, against buildings. Definitely a foxy rockabilly vibe going on here.
'Derek's Thoughts on Bodies in Motion by Jonathan Humble' in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the top right hand side.
Watercolour-style illustration showing an olive branch with a goat standing on a leaf on the left and a man sitting on a leaf to the right.
Greta Stoddart looking directly at the camera, smiling. She has brown hair with a grey streak and she's wearing a black shirt with small blue and red flowers on.
Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses
A misty photo showing train tracks disappearing to a vanishing point.
Section from a book cover. The background is purple and some block capital letters in pink , yellow, green and white are arranged in a uniform block pattern.
A still from the 2D block game Minecraft. A small figure with a sword is running towards a large dragon ... One way or another it's going to be carnage.
Woodcuts seem to be very popular as illustrations for poetry book covers. This looks like it is indeed a woodcut (or a clever imposter).Predominantly blue it shows a night scene with a moon and a path leading to a house in the hills.
The Inheritors