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!

A man and a woman in period costume from around the 1600s by the look of the wig. They are standing either side of a chemists wooden counter and red smoke billows in the air
An old black and white photo of two kids, one older boy and a younger girl.
Black and white photo of Ben Wilkinson, a young friendly looking man with glasses
An owl (Google say's it's a barn owl) sitting on a leather gauntlet.
Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'
A painted book cover with a blue background. A thick swirling dark blue brush stroke bisects the page horizontally. three partial circles hover in the background like alien planets. Light blue, mid blue and (nope not another blue) red.
Photograph a woman standing in sand with a coat on. She has left footprints.
A photograph showing Reg Varney sitting in his London bus.If you're old enough you'll remember 'On the buses'. "That's made my day that has, that's really made my day."
Johnathon Davidson reading into a microphone. He is wearing a grey suit jacket and a blue shirt and he has short grey hair
Christmas Quiz Answers
Black text on white reads: ‘The Climbing Frame by Sarah Corbett' with half a small yellow Friday Poem blob just leaving from the top right hand side.
The Dowry of Hera