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 tangle of snow covered beaches, a small red bird sits on one, from a distance it could be mistaken for a heart.
Two books with mostly white covers. one cover has a blackened rib, the other a small picture of a blue open door
Christopher Arksey looking at the camera. He's wearing glasses and a striped top.
Photo of Katrina standing on the shore. Crab pots are behind her. Photo by Joe Grabham.
"Party" as Both Verb and Moral Imperative by Katherine Meehan" in black text on white with a large yellow Friday Poem blob over the top right quarter
It's written and can't be amended, this book
photo of Sharon, she has dark hair and is smiling
Black and white image showing four female poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Penelope Shuttle, Linda France and Evan Bolan. They all look poetically pensive
Black text on white reads ‘Chapwench by Jay Whittaker’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob at the far right hand end over the last few letters of the word ‘Whittaker’.
Three pamphlets arranged in a loose fan shape. 'Diary of a Divorce' shows a woman standing in a doorway, 'the hispering' features an abstract figure that looks a bit like an upside down doll and 'Crucifox' has an arresting yellow graphic of a fox head with a direct gaze
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.
Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.