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!

Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.
Escape
Seven women sitting on a sofa.
Black text on white reads: from 'Testimonies (Scotland 1623 - 1930)' by Hamish Whyte
The Break
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, dressed in yellow, striding forward into the projected fantasy of her come-back
An open book with a colourful party blower resting on the pages. The words "Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, She should have looked after her teeth" are just about visible above it.
Houses of the poets
Folio
My Country
A pastel hued watercolour of two older people in a squashy bed/ A woman on the left and a man on the right. They are wearing pyjamas and appear to be sleeping in a loose embrace
Slightly blurred mostly blue picture of a white lighthouse on the end of a pier.