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 Samuel Tongue. He is wearing a blue shirt and has short brown hair. He is smiling and standing in front of a green hedge.
Julia Bird holding her book, she has medium length brown hair and is wearing a purple faux fur coat with a yellow wool scarf. she is standing in front of a white wall.
The eyes of the Bard almost like he's looking through a letterbox, on a yellow rectangle on an off white background
Oil painting of a woman dressed in blue holding a baby. She is sitting in front of the ocean and looks like she may be eating a biscuit. Looks like the child may also be eating a biscuit too. The predominant colours is blue.
Old black and white picture of Billy Childish and Tracey Erin from the back cover of Childish's Zine 'Prity Thing'.
A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.
Black text on white reads: "How It Began by Charlotte Muse". There's half a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob on the far left hand side.
Anne-Marie Fyfe sitting on a wooden boardwalk in Massachusetts. Wearing a red jacket and a white scarf with dark blue stars around her neck.
Image from a book illustrating the dialect poem 'The Lion and Albert' showing four people in Edwardian dress discussing something. The picture is titled 'The manager had to be sent for.'
'A Portrait of my Father in the Public Bar of the Royal Arms by David Lukens' in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob right in the centre (like a yellow snooker ball, perhaps, which would be appropriate).
Headshots of 12 reviewers. They are smiling or looking intently at the camera.
Two luminescent jellyfish (presumably of the 'moon' variety) on a blue background.