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 text on white reads ‘Evening on the Porch by Jodie Hollander’ with a small quarter of a yellow Friday Poem blob sinking into the left bottom corner.
Escape
frog
Woodcut showing a woman holding a baby.
A posterised image of Britney Spears.
Protection
Photograph showing poetry books on a bookshelf.
Crop from cover of RENDANG by Will Harris, bright red blue and yellow letters on white
Whimsical illustration showing a hill with roads twisting between rocks and a castle atop.
"Wetsuit by Regina Weinert" in black text on white with half a large Friday Poem yellow blob like a low sun top right.
 Imagining Sow
Section of a book cover. The background is blue and parts of the letters A and F are shown in a bold yellow font.