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!

Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'
Poetry books on a bookshelf, at least forty of them. I am not going to list them all here, but many appear in the article.
Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks
Black text on white reads "Four poems by Daniel Brown" with a yellow medium sized Friday Poem blob over the middle of the image.
Paul Muldoon standing in front of a grey wall looking 'ard. He has grey curly hair and glasses, and he is wearing a brown tweed jacket and tie and a dark shirt.
Black shapes on a bright pink/purple background. On the shapes the word amino is written in vertical fragments "AM" "N" "IO" "N"
Julia Bird holding her book, she has medium length brown hair and is wearing a purple faux fur coat with a yellow wool scarf. she is standing in front of a white wall.
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.
Caricature of Baudelaire. Drawn in 1911, it shows him with wavy black hair, trademark piercing eyes and a moustache.
Found by a man who was walking his dog
A photograph of a small house, painted half blue and half yellow. The porch is red.
A black background with a painting of a vertical hand. A small red snake is entwined in the fingers and the tail seems to be piercing the palm.