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!

Here is Bernie Saunders in Mittens
Three piles of stones on the seashore. Five stones, seven stones, and then five stones. Haiku innit.
A painting of a woman shelling peas, the clouds are bright, she has red hair and a blue blouse with small white flowers on it
Photograph a woman standing in sand with a coat on. She has left footprints.
A line drawing showing an anchor and a compass on a cream background.
The February Museum: recent acquisitions
Graphic print showing a woman's head and arm in pale colours. She is wearing a crown of flowers.
Book cover The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby showing two rustic types planting a tree
Part of the text "Collecting the Data" in red serif font on a turquoise background.
Wind-up people
Light green textured paper background with two off-centre white dots.
Concentrated radiance