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!

Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a health worker in PPE on a blue background, one is yellow with black text running down the centre of the page and one is half white with purple text , the other half has what may be a woodcut in what may be ethnic patterns.
Mid blue background with the word Water in black sans serif text
black and white head and shoulders photo of Amy Wack looking directly into the camera
A white plastic safety helmet floats on the water; underneath it numerous goose barnacles are attached.
A background of the stock exchange with the words "The economist can tell you about your bank balance, but the poet has a window into your soul" superimposed
Picture of Emma smiling with shoulder length brown hair wearing blue shirt and dungarees sitting behind a table full of books.
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.
Photobombing Dad’s moment
Portion of a book cover. It has a dark red background with parts of the words The and Red shown.
Christopher Arksey looking at the camera. He's wearing glasses and a striped top.
Greta Stoddart looking directly at the camera, smiling. She has brown hair with a grey streak and she's wearing a black shirt with small blue and red flowers on.
Pastel picture of a fox, birds, butterflies and a mirror reflecting the sea.