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!

Black and white image showing what looks like abstracted, shrouded figures.
Image showing a medicine bottle and a prescription for Poemcetemol (see what they did there).
A detail from 'Hato zu' a woodcut by Konen Uchara. It shows a rolling blue ocean with white flecks and a blue sky.
a black and white portrait of Clare, she is turned from the camera, scar tissue is visible were her breasts were
Painting of leaves on a gold background, There is bay, and possibly corn.
Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.
Three poetry pamphlets - 'Fridge' by Selima Hill (blue with a white outline pic of a fridge and a goose on?, 'Oh Be Quiet' by Natalie Shaw (white with a bit of yellow), and 'do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom' by Rachael Matthews - dark green with black outline flowers
Looking through an underpass. A house can be discerned through distant mist.
Cliff Yates' poetry bookshelf — a shelf with poetry books on.
Illustration of a 1950's style woman getting ready to stab a python with a dagger. I know right! Pretty racey for poetry (It's even got a yellow background!). I'll take it over an abstract thought doodle though.
Tulipa Ingens
‘The Sound of the Struggle by Charles Rammelkamp’ in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the ‘Str’ of Struggle