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!

three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter
montage of eight eco poetry book covers illustrated with a variety of trees leaves and one large crashing wave.
Three poetry pamphlets - 'Fridge' by Selima Hill (blue with a white outline pic of a fridge and a goose on?, 'Oh Be Quiet' by Natalie Shaw (white with a bit of yellow), and 'do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom' by Rachael Matthews - dark green with black outline flowers
'After the miracle by Richard Meier' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the end of the word 'miracle'.
"Wetsuit by Regina Weinert" in black text on white with half a large Friday Poem yellow blob like a low sun top right.
Mottephobia
Section of a book cover. It's mostly black, with silver grey lines that could be woodcuts. It shows in roughly square boxes, a tree, a tower, a bridge, some leaves and a curly vertical squiggle. Nope, I don't know either.
Silhouette of a woman's face looking to the right of the image, her features are obscured be autumnal trees superimposed on the silhouette
Black and white portrait photograph of Roger Elkin somehow looking both serious and impish.
Dark purple circles on a pale pink background. The circles look a bit like cells and are surrounded by dots and same shapes in swirling patterns.
A photograph showing Reg Varney sitting in his London bus.If you're old enough you'll remember 'On the buses'. "That's made my day that has, that's really made my day."
Two book covers, both have faces on, both looking roughly towards the centre of the image. The left hand image has an head drawn with lots of wavy green lines on a black background, the right hand shows a woman's head mostly hidden by a cloud, we can see her lips and chin and one shoulder.