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!

Part of the front cover of 'Little Piece of Harm' by Chris Jones showing a wet puddle ion a pavement n the dark, in an urban setting
The Friday Poem 'Las Ciguenas' by Matthew Stewart
A thumbs up and a two fingers salute in front of a poetry submission letter
Black and white portrait photograph of Roger Elkin somehow looking both serious and impish.
Composite image showing a dollar sign, a sixpenny piece, a bitcoin sign, a mackerel head and a figure with blue hair.
Pathé News Visits the Ace of Spades
Images from the three pamphlet covers, mostly grayscale. Three are some photographed high rise buildings, a close up of a black leather jacket and a drawing of what looks like a figure in a maze
Three large fishhooks dangling on what looks like hemp rope, a small green (jade?) fish swims between them.
Black text on white reads: "How It Began by Charlotte Muse". There's half a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob on the far left hand side.
Black text on white reads ‘Trial and Error by Josh Geffin’ with a tiny yellow Friday Poem blob over the ‘o’ in Error.
A window at night with twilight streaming through. Or it could be a streetlight. Twilight is more poetic though, innit?
Photograph of a long shed-like house on iron stilts.