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 print showing a woman's head and arm in pale colours. She is wearing a crown of flowers.
Delicate watercolour showing thin branches with red flowers and two small birds flying nearby.
Reading Banville
A detail from 'Hato zu' a woodcut by Konen Uchara. It shows a rolling blue ocean with white flecks and a blue sky.
Snowday
Black text on white reads: 'Forester by Vera Lynch' with a medium-sized yellow Froday Poem blob over the 'este' of 'Forester' and the word 'Vera'
A window at night with twilight streaming through. Or it could be a streetlight. Twilight is more poetic though, innit?
Photobombing Dad’s moment
black white head shot of the poet, he is looking upwards to the left and his chin is resting in his hand
Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.
A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background
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.