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 pink square-shaped speech bubble on a dark blue background.
In those days, robbery was my form of love
This is a dark book cover (could have guessed really, "Mouth of Shadows" and all that). The image looks like the inside of a cave (think "Lord of the Rings") a light comes from above and throws a circular glow on the floor.
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.
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.
Abstract painting with splashes of colour. Shades of blue and purple on a cream background, some splashy shapes, some more kind of smudgy. All looks a bit cataclysmic.
A Friday clearly isn't a Friday without an abstract poetry book cover to describe. I am almost, but not quite, at a loss for words. Here we go, poetry fans! Pop art seems to be the style choice. Purple jagged forks of what looks like lightening cross diagonally passing behind white cloud like formations (although one does seem to have a dark doorway in, so it may not be a cloud). Green ribbons, a blue sky and a red dot top right complete the picture. Ah ... poetry.
The Friday Poem 'Book' by Meg Peacocke
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.
Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.
What looks like an ancient Greek plate or bowl. A bloke with a bad back seems to be have been bitten by a snake and he is gesticulating towards a reclining fellow who is possibly having his heart pecked out by a large bird of prey. Lotta blood, but they were rough in them days.
Painting showing wide red an white horizontakl stripes, in th top left corner is a drawing of a gun on a blue background. Some white stars are at the bottom.