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!

diagram showing links between American poets
Black background with the face of a china doll, cracked, with piercing blue eyes.
Photograph of two people walking on the beach at low tide. A shadowy coaster is seen in the background. This may or may not be relevant.
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Lex Runciman" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses
illustration showing a woman with blue skin covered in images, light blue leaves intertwine with pink flowers, a yellow sun on each breast.
Pencil drawing showing a cube on a white background surrounded by a green textured corona.
Found by a man who was walking his dog
Eventually
Old copperplate writing on a white background.
Black and white print showing a black background with white horizontal stripes. A circle of this is cut out and slid down showing a white background.
It's written and can't be amended, this book