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!

Photo of Sarah, she has short dark brown hair and is wearing a thin blue scarf and a blue linen top.
Close up photo of Diane Seuss' face. She looks intensely at the camera, heavy dark eyeshadow frames her eyes.
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Pop Art-style graphic showing a 50s style pin-up girl lounging on a big old American car.
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.
Black text on white reads ‘Sisters, by Karen Smith’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob at the far right top corner.
A bold orange cover showing a line / brush outline of a male torso.
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.
Graphic with a green background showing a repeating motif of drawn black and white bicycles. It would make excellent wallpaper for a keen cyclist.
Front cover of Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle. A watercolour of the sea and cliffs depicting many creatures underwater and a long serpentine body emerging with a female human head.
Photograph of a wartime Pillbox bunker on a beach.
Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.