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!

Houses of the poets
 Imagining Sow
Collage style illustration off a man made up oaf various images including flowers and butterflies, the predominant colour is red, and he is on a black background which has a number of butterflies and a Passion flower
Scrawled writing and symbols in black red and yellow completely cover a parchment-coloured background.
Hares cunningly disguised as squiggles. On a grey background.
Photo of Leila Chatti looking at the camera. She has long brown hair and is wearing a black turtleneck sweater and red lipstick.
A round yellow ball with two eyes and a big smile.
Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses
Folio
The word 'iamb' in white a light grey circle on a dark grey background. Underneath it says 'poetry seen and heard' in small white lower-case text.
Big white text on a black background. Parts of the words "The" and "Big" . Its striking if you like that monochrome block capitals kind of thing.
"Lessons in The Method #23 by Martin Jago" in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the #23