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!

Pastel shades, probably watercolour, showing a bedroom interior with an open window and a traditional iron bedstead.
Pieces of text in red and gold on a dark blue book cover.
Hand holding a red balloon, written on the balloon in white text is the following "Before I have time to answer, I’m in bed with Daniel Craig. He’s stirring out of sleep, smelling of Tobacco Vanille."
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.
The Friday Poem 'Portrait of the Poet as an Artist' by Chris Edgoose
Front cover of Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle. A watercolour of the sea and cliffs depicting many creatures underwater and a long serpentine body emerging with a female human head.
Here is Bernie Saunders in Mittens
The Astronaut Who Came To Tea
Blue and white illustration, possibly a lino cut showing a blue cup on its side with spilt liquid. The cup has an illustration that looks like Lewis Carroll's Alice.
Photograph a woman standing in sand with a coat on. She has left footprints.
Abstract black lines on a grey background. Some go up in a diagonal way describing, I dunno, possibly an upside down ice cream cone. Some curve upwards like branches of an abstract tree. Kinda jazzy man.
The words "We're all in it together" in white bold text on ragged red and blue triangles (a bit like flags) on a white background.