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!

A photograph of Mercy and Jordan in Kampala. They are smiling.
"Party" as Both Verb and Moral Imperative by Katherine Meehan" in black text on white with a large yellow Friday Poem blob over the top right quarter
Picture of Emma smiling with shoulder length brown hair wearing blue shirt and dungarees sitting behind a table full of books.
Wet for Literature
Composite image made from two book covers showing (on the left) an abstract shoreline with sky and (on the right) an abstract grey background with white squiggles and brown leaflike squiggles. I know, so many abstract images! It seems to be a poetry thing, the abstract image. Sometimes you get a nice picture of a friendly dog, or a cow. But mostly it's an abstract thing.
An old black and white photo of two kids, one older boy and a younger girl.
My Farm
The Break
Scrawled writing and symbols in black red and yellow completely cover a parchment-coloured background.
Illustration showing a stylised dandelion head with the seeds blowing around. A red ribbon curls across the page.
'Other people's parties' by Martyn Crucefiix in black text on white with a Friday Poem yellow blob over 'eopl' and 'ies'.
Muscle memory