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 white head shot of the poet, he is looking upwards to the left and his chin is resting in his hand
Dark blue background. On this are two light blue outlines of hands, open palms upwards. Some beige swirling lines are behind.
black and white photograph of a park bench. There is a small backpack on one end. A glass and a bottle are nearby.
Mirage
'After the miracle by Richard Meier' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the end of the word 'miracle'.
The February Museum: recent acquisitions
Section of a book cover. It's mostly black, with silver grey lines that could be woodcuts. It shows in roughly square boxes, a tree, a tower, a bridge, some leaves and a curly vertical squiggle. Nope, I don't know either.
Three large fishhooks dangling on what looks like hemp rope, a small green (jade?) fish swims between them.
Watercolour showing green grass, white flowers and two leafy trees with a light blue sky.
Ink stencil style picture of a cat (the Mariscat cat) on a cream watercolour background.
Black text on white reads ‘Evening on the Porch by Jodie Hollander’ with a small quarter of a yellow Friday Poem blob sinking into the left bottom corner.
Three pieces of fruit, made out of wood on a pale background. Pretty sure one is a pear and more than 80% sure that another represents an apple. The last could well be a beef tomato, then again a teeny pumpkin fits too.