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!

Illustration of a 1950's style woman getting ready to stab a python with a dagger. I know right! Pretty racey for poetry (It's even got a yellow background!). I'll take it over an abstract thought doodle though.
Insomnia
'The Importance of Being Earnest by Jeanette Burton' in black text on white with a big yellow Friday Poem blob over the right hand lower side.
Black and white photograph of Edgar Allan Poe. He looks intently at the camera.
Three pamphlets arranged in a loose fan shape. 'Diary of a Divorce' shows a woman standing in a doorway, 'the hispering' features an abstract figure that looks a bit like an upside down doll and 'Crucifox' has an arresting yellow graphic of a fox head with a direct gaze
Looking through an underpass. A house can be discerned through distant mist.
Black text on white reads: 'The Laugh by Christopher Arksey' with the bottom third of a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob at the top middle edge
Section of a book cover. The background is blue and parts of the letters A and F are shown in a bold yellow font.
Drawing of a cow with wings on a pink background. It is saying 'Bong' and it's by Spike Milligan.
A blurry image that shows the sky in a light lilac hue. There are brown buildings at the bottom and three birds fly in from the right.
Photo of Rory Waterman wearing a blue sweatshirt, sitting in front of a purple wall.
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