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 black and white photograph of a woman's face; she is smiling.
Photograph of a wartime Pillbox bunker on a beach.
The Friday Poem 'Las Ciguenas' by Matthew Stewart
The Unicyclist of Benghazi
A woman holding a microphone. She is on stage with some funky purple and blue lighting.
A white butterfly caught in a spiders web, the image is monochrome
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.
Celestial Objects
The three pamphlet covers, Sarah's is white with a green diagonal flash, Judi's has the title in a blue oval on a background pencil drawing of a river and rocks and Hugo's is the shadow of banister railings non a light brown background.
A poster-style graphic that shows four sheep heads each on a different coloured background. It's like Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings, but with sheep.
The Friday Poem 'The Baby in the Wardrobe' by Kathy Pimlott
Black background with geometric shapes in orange, mostly triangles.