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!

“Not my children, not my rats by Natalie Shaw' in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob over ‘rats’.
Four people dressed in sparkly festival gear, one with a blue suit covered in white clouds.They are screaming with joy and waving neon coloured glow sticks. Party on!
A collage showing many images — a clenched fist, a skull and crossbones, a pair of handcuffs, a tortoise? and others, you get the idea. There is also scrawled text, such as 'Use your voice' and 'Stop the attacks'
The words "You're fucking lost 
and fucking found 
stuck in fucking 
chicken town" in white stencil font on a black background
Black and white image of young people at an anti Nazi rally, they are carrying banners with "stop the nazis" and "stop racist attacks"
Black and white composite image of Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards.
Headshots of 12 reviewers. They are smiling or looking intently at the camera.
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.
Front cover of 'Still' by Christopher Meredith showing two small black birds perched on a tree branch in the snow
Line drawing of a lily on a pink background
Two book covers, one green, one blue. Sigh.
Erasures