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!

Photograph showing poetry books on a bookshelf.
The Friday Poem 'Part of me can't hear the moon calling any more' by Emma Simon
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.
Book cover of Restorations by Rosalind Hudis. It's abstract art, or maybe a picture of mountains, in blue and dark red against pale pink.
Black text on white reads "Three poems by John Greening" with a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob over the bottom centre of the image.
Paris at night in silhouette.
part of the cover of the book The Slowing Ride by Will Stone; looks like broken glazed tiles in turquoise and green and grey, there's a bit of a female face in the middle but mostly it's just cracked and weird
Close up graphic of a green leaf. It is partially transparent on a white background, and the veins running through the leaf are clearly visible.
Close up of text on Elizabeth Bishop's gravestone. Under her name It says "All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"
A poem laid out a page in the shape of a bird. It looks old.
Lost at the Western General
Part of the text "Collecting the Data" in red serif font on a turquoise background.