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!

The Friday Poem 'Part of me can't hear the moon calling any more' by Emma Simon
Photo showing a jumble of children's plastic dolls in a state of disrepair.
a hand holding a pen with a blue winners rosette attached to it
Holy
Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.
An open book with a colourful party blower resting on the pages. The words "Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, She should have looked after her teeth" are just about visible above it.
The Inheritors
The Friday Poem 'Our Children's Childhoods' by Charlotte Gann
Swimmers
The Friday Poem 'Portrait of the Poet as an Artist' by Chris Edgoose
Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text
Big Yellow letter V on a white background surrounded by an multicoloured ring that looks a bit sixties