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!

A lake, with a hill behind tinted yellow, kind of sepia but are yellow. The picture has been taken from a bus and a faint reflection of the photographer can be barely seen
Three cover images. The first shows some red fruits on branches, the second shows a prism or beaker with blue shapes inside and the third is a turquoise and blue wavy pattern.
A round yellow ball with two eyes and a big smile.
Studley Royal Water Gardens Temple of Fame
photo of Kae Tempest, short hair, black polo shirt
Pathé News Visits the Ace of Spades
"Lessons in The Method #23 by Martin Jago" in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the #23
The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background
About the Building
Section of a book cover. The background is blue and parts of the letters A and F are shown in a bold yellow font.
Ryan Van Winkle standing in front of a stone wall. He has glasses and a grey jacket.
Caricature of Baudelaire. Drawn in 1911, it shows him with wavy black hair, trademark piercing eyes and a moustache.