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!

Section of the book cover. What looks like rows of small squareish woodblock shapes in pinky red on a yellow background.
Slug by Hollie McNish, orange text on a purple background
Revelations  01/01/2022
Snowday
Photograph of a wartime Pillbox bunker on a beach.
Photo of Katrina standing on the shore. Crab pots are behind her. Photo by Joe Grabham.
A ripe Camembert a bottle of Gaillac red wine with a poem on the label and a half full glass in front of a yellow window. The poem is Zaleo Premium by Matthew Stewart
Three piles of stones on the seashore. Five stones, seven stones, and then five stones. Haiku innit.
A rust red concrete slab wall with words "The Dereliction" written in stencil font.
'Bookcase by Derek Coggrave' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the last three letters of Coggrave.
Part of a slightly abstract painting showing (I think) a mirror (or window), a blue door, and some red vertical lines that could be curtains ... or a draped scarf ... or something.
Artwork in a graphic style showing the back of a man walking towards a tall building with many windows. The sky appears to be on fire.