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!

Abstract. A red splodge on a black splurge on a yellow squidge.
My Farm
The Day Cattle Broke Through the Fence at the Outbreak of the Ukraine War
Photo of Leila Chatti looking at the camera. She has long brown hair and is wearing a black turtleneck sweater and red lipstick.
Close up black and white photograph of a woman's face. She is looking down.
What looks like an ancient Greek plate or bowl. A bloke with a bad back seems to be have been bitten by a snake and he is gesticulating towards a reclining fellow who is possibly having his heart pecked out by a large bird of prey. Lotta blood, but they were rough in them days.
Mirage
Escape
Delicate watercolour showing thin branches with red flowers and two small birds flying nearby.
'Walking the Hill by Pam Zinnemann-Hope' in black text on white with a large Friday Poem yellow blob rising below it like a big ol' sun.
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.