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!

‘My Dog Brings me Back to Death by Victoria Gatehouse’ in black text on white with a teeny yellow Friday Poem blob over the words ‘My Dog'.
a green lawn close up with some bowling balls on it , a red flash on the top left corner reads "The Worlds finest bowls"
Some part words in yellow font on a green background. Basically, the cover of this book is yellow text on a green background, so to make it look just a little bit more interesting for the front page I have zoomed right in and cropped the image. Voilà.
"Because this is a Venice Poem (after Tishani Doshi) by Rachel Spence" in black text on white with a Friday Poem yellow blob below the text like a rising / setting sun.
Three cover images. The first shows some red fruits on branches, the second shows a prism or beaker with blue shapes inside and the third is a turquoise and blue wavy pattern.
The word Orlam in black script on a parchment background. The "O" is enormous and is surrounded by small line drawings of birds and insects in red. White lines like trees are in the background, and a black line-drawn lamb hangs in the centre.
alice hiller with curly blonde hair wearing a grey jacket standing in a formal park
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!
Photo of Jill Abram. She has long curly hair and is standing in front of trees.
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.
A pastel hued watercolour of two older people in a squashy bed/ A woman on the left and a man on the right. They are wearing pyjamas and appear to be sleeping in a loose embrace
uneven red nearly vertical stripes on a white background. The words "Eat or we both starve" run across the page in a blue uppercase font, the text has a white background which bisects the red stripes.