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!

Could be a woodcut, a black and white graphic of o woman's face, her chin is rising in her hand.
Mom cooks fish
Pixelated image with a black background and a thick rainbow border on the left hand side and top. Small square blocks of colour seem to explode into the centre from the top left hand corner.
The Day Cattle Broke Through the Fence at the Outbreak of the Ukraine War
Black text on white reads ‘Ping by Martyn Crucefix’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob over the word ‘Ping’.
About the Building
Pastel picture of a fox, birds, butterflies and a mirror reflecting the sea.
Some part words in yellow font on a green background. Basically, the cover of this book is yellow text on a green background, so to make it look just a little bit more interesting for the front page I have zoomed right in and cropped the image. Voilà.
A thumbs up and a two fingers salute in front of a poetry submission letter
An owl (Google say's it's a barn owl) sitting on a leather gauntlet.
Wet for Literature
Image of a white skull on a black background. The skull has a pink flower in the right eye socket.