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!

Airborne
Graphic with a green background showing a repeating motif of drawn black and white bicycles. It would make excellent wallpaper for a keen cyclist.
Paris at night in silhouette.
Portrait of my mother as a hop-picker
looks like a sculpture of a red haired woman with wings (angel or dragon?) holding on to the left arm of a male figure.
Black background with the face of a china doll, cracked, with piercing blue eyes.
Section of what looks like a red tapestry showing a woman a unicorn and a fruit tree. the woman is sitting and the unicorn is resting its front hooves on the woman's leg. The tree remains impassive.
Slug by Hollie McNish, orange text on a purple background
James Conor Patterson with short hair and a green crew neck jumper
An old black and white photo of two kids, one older boy and a younger girl.
A close up showing two torn pieces of pink paper with slightly burnt edges.
Part of the cover of the first edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'. It shows a bearded fellow sitting halfway up a mast ringing a bell. It's a bit windy.