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!

An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea
A dusk sky, lanterns are strung across the image, its all a bit blurred.
'After the miracle by Richard Meier' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the end of the word 'miracle'.
Grainy still from a colour film showing two boxers squaring up in a ring.
Two green arrows show road directions and the letters A34 are shown in yellow.
Abstract painting with splashes of colour. Shades of blue and purple on a cream background, some splashy shapes, some more kind of smudgy. All looks a bit cataclysmic.
I think it's wool. Mostly blue but with th occasional red splurge. Oh, and there are some, drops of water that look frozen.
Close up of text on Elizabeth Bishop's gravestone. Under her name It says "All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"
A blurry image that shows the sky in a light lilac hue. There are brown buildings at the bottom and three birds fly in from the right.
Greta Stoddart looking directly at the camera, smiling. She has brown hair with a grey streak and she's wearing a black shirt with small blue and red flowers on.
Pencil drawing showing a cube on a white background surrounded by a green textured corona.
Return to Ithaca by Mark McDonnell in black text on white with a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob over the word 'Ithaca'