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!

Dark purple circles on a pale pink background. The circles look a bit like cells and are surrounded by dots and same shapes in swirling patterns.
Pencil drawing showing a cube on a white background surrounded by a green textured corona.
Photograph of Helen Evans. She has short grey hair and is clasping her hands and leaning to her left.
Black text on white reads: "Double first, 1957 by Beatrice Garland" with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the 1957
Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.
Photo of Jill Abram. She has long curly hair and is standing in front of trees.
What looks like an acrylic painting of vines, berries and white flowers.
photo of Joelle Taylor with very short blonde hair in a flowery shirt speaking into a mic
Naive painting of the backs of two people sitting on a wall, one has a red headscarf and orange skirt, one is dressed in black
Book cover of 'Time' by Etel Adnan
Two book covers, one green, one blue. Sigh.
Stewart Sanderson standing in a field in front of the Cheviots. He is smiling.. well, why not? It looks like a great place.