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!

part of the cover of the book The Slowing Ride by Will Stone; looks like broken glazed tiles in turquoise and green and grey, there's a bit of a female face in the middle but mostly it's just cracked and weird
Photo of Tom standing on a a river bank with a bridge in the background. He has a dark beard and glasses and is wearing a blue waterproof jacket and a grey check scarf
A window at night with twilight streaming through. Or it could be a streetlight. Twilight is more poetic though, innit?
I think it's wool. Mostly blue but with th occasional red splurge. Oh, and there are some, drops of water that look frozen.
The Friday Poem 'Our Children's Childhoods' by Charlotte Gann
Mid blue background with the word Water in black sans serif text
What looks like an acrylic painting of vines, berries and white flowers.
Some part words in yellow font on a green background. Basically, the cover of this book is yellow text on a green background, so to make it look just a little bit more interesting for the front page I have zoomed right in and cropped the image. Voilà.
Elephants
'After the miracle by Richard Meier' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the end of the word 'miracle'.
collage art incorporating a mans back, a woman's leg, various plants, a lobster claw , a turtle shell and a fly agaric mushroom. All on a pale blue background.
Archimedes palimpsest, Ancient Greek text on a turquoise and red background