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!

Black text on white reads: from 'Testimonies (Scotland 1623 - 1930)' by Hamish Whyte
Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'
Graphic with a green background showing a repeating motif of drawn black and white bicycles. It would make excellent wallpaper for a keen cyclist.
Appears to be a watercolour painting in a block graphic style representing sea in the foreground and a sandy seashore behind. The whole thing has a slightly swirly pattern visible. A bit like the circle marks on an artex ceiling, but more artistic.
Swimmers
Section of a book cover. The background is blue and parts of the letters A and F are shown in a bold yellow font.
Softwood
'Designated Driver by A. A. Gunther' in black text on white with a teeny yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the word 'Driver'.
Purple cover with yellowish feathers drawn on. bit like wallpaper. There is an ostrich, and the book title.
Painting showing wide red an white horizontakl stripes, in th top left corner is a drawing of a gun on a blue background. Some white stars are at the bottom.
Johnathon Davidson reading into a microphone. He is wearing a grey suit jacket and a blue shirt and he has short grey hair
Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.