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!

Graphic showing an orange circle on a yellow background. A yellow shape like a small lightbulb dangles into the top of the circle.
"While driving to Ikea for a laundry basket by Heidi Beck' in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob over the first half of the word 'laundry'.
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.
Purple cover with yellowish feathers drawn on. bit like wallpaper. There is an ostrich, and the book title.
Pears Soap by Damaris West
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.
Photo of Kathy Pimlott. She has short grey hair, glasses and is holding a glass of wine. She is wearing ablue polo necked jumper and a necklace of orange wooden beads. Photo by Matthew Paul.
Swirling blue. tinted background looks a bit like sand. There is a flat tree shape possibly made of seaweed and some random shells are lying on the aforementioned gray blue swirly sand stuff.
Found by a man who was walking his dog
Watercolour-style illustration showing an olive branch with a goat standing on a leaf on the left and a man sitting on a leaf to the right.
Part of the text "Collecting the Data" in red serif font on a turquoise background.
Observation