The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

The Friday Poem archive

Welcome to The Friday Poem Archive page. Poems, features and reviews will all end up here so that their gloriousness will remain readable to all those who seek poetic excellence. Use the search box below to find something specific, or just have a browse.

Poetry: a lockdown journey

Feature: Sophie Buchaillard talks about the Writers on Reading podcast, how poetry can be a real conversation between writer and reader, and about the future of Welsh poetry

Three pamphlets: Figura, Flynn and Sabah

Book Review: Three pamphlets — Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre Press, 2021), Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre Press, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat, 2021) and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot Press, 2021)

Wind-up people

by Jacqueline Schaalje — our Friday Poem on 11/03/22

Poems for Ukraine 01/04/22

Poems for Ukraine by Scott Elder and Simon Rees-Roberts

I’m enjoying the anonymity while it lasts

In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Brian Bilston

Prizes prised from the perished

Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye Press, 2021)

Lost at the Western General

by Kate Hendry — our Friday Poem on 04/03/22

Poems for Ukraine 25/03/22

Poems for Ukraine by Matt Witt and Roy Marshall

Poems for Ukraine 17/03/22

Poems for Ukraine — Pratibha Castle and Christopher James

March Madness

by Matt Witt — one of our Poems for Ukraine

this is the naming of trees / this is a series of flames / this is watching you all disappear

Book Review: Clare Best reviews All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore (Seren, 2021)

Four thrilling new worlds

Feature: Maggie Mackay looks at the four winning pamphlets of The Poetry Business International Boon & Pamphlet Competition 2021