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The Friday Poem

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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!

Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.
A photograph of Taylor Swift taking a vinyl disc from its sleeve. the album is hers, the cover shows the normal rock'n'roll stuff, you know, woman in underwear lying on a bed etc.
Photo showing a jumble of children's plastic dolls in a state of disrepair.
Monochrome photograph showing the silhouette of a woman standing on a small rock in the sea.
Black text on white reads ‘Evening on the Porch by Jodie Hollander’ with a small quarter of a yellow Friday Poem blob sinking into the left bottom corner.
A black and white woodcut print. It is abstract in nature, but seems to show glasses, one upturned with a spider in it.
Phantom Settlements
Naive painting of the backs of two people sitting on a wall, one has a red headscarf and orange skirt, one is dressed in black
A yellow squiggle on a greyish background. Well I suppose, given the subject matter, it could be a mathematical symbol. But if you just think squiggle you'll probably be closer.
Christopher Arksey looking at the camera. He's wearing glasses and a striped top.
Sophie sitting at a desk turning to look at the camera, she has a green jumper, two books are on the desk, her chin is resting on her hand.
Black text on white reads: "Phobia by Nicholas Hogg". There's a quarter of a big yellow Friday Poem blob over the top right hand side.

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