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!

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
Black and white photograph of Katherine
Watercolour-style illustration showing an olive branch with a goat standing on a leaf on the left and a man sitting on a leaf to the right.
Section of book cover, red background with parts of letters in black and white.
Photo of Leila Chatti looking at the camera. She has long brown hair and is wearing a black turtleneck sweater and red lipstick.
‘Vlad Dracul Is Pissed Off That You People Killed His Wife by Matthew Bullen’ in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob in the top left hand corner.
Archimedes palimpsest, Ancient Greek text on a turquoise and red background
Part of a painting showing a baldheaded figure with a red nose. There is also a bird wrapped in red thread. The figure has a wooden violin tuning peg stuck in one ear.
“Not my children, not my rats by Natalie Shaw' in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob over ‘rats’.
Martin and Helen standing in front of a wall, he is wearing a blue suit with red trainers, she is wearing a slightly retro frock in black with a white lace collar, she has fifty style glasses and a grey cardigan.
Bad Betties written in black curly script on a white background there are some footprints and nude female silhouettes a candle and a broomstick.
Photo of Rory Waterman wearing a blue sweatshirt, sitting in front of a purple wall.