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 February Museum: recent acquisitions
Black and white image showing mathematical drawings and equations.
Illustration showing a stylised dandelion head with the seeds blowing around. A red ribbon curls across the page.
Picture of Emma smiling with shoulder length brown hair wearing blue shirt and dungarees sitting behind a table full of books.
Two book covers, one green, one blue. Sigh.
A black background with a red brush stroke image that looks like a fox. The image is red and is surrounded by white text with the words THE RAKE in block capitals.
Two books with mostly white covers. one cover has a blackened rib, the other a small picture of a blue open door
The colour blue
Photograph of a muddy track leading into a woodland. The trees leaves are a vivid green and it looks like it has been raining.
Oil painting of a woman dressed in blue holding a baby. She is sitting in front of the ocean and looks like she may be eating a biscuit. Looks like the child may also be eating a biscuit too. The predominant colours is blue.
Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.
Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks