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!

Drawing of a cow with wings on a pink background. It is saying 'Bong' and it's by Spike Milligan.
Graphic showing an orange circle on a yellow background. A yellow shape like a small lightbulb dangles into the top of the circle.
Crop from cover of RENDANG by Will Harris, bright red blue and yellow letters on white
Funeral
Black and white image showing what looks like abstracted, shrouded figures.
Swimmers
a green lawn close up with some bowling balls on it , a red flash on the top left corner reads "The Worlds finest bowls"
A pencil sketch, grey on a cream background. Looks like the branches of a tree.
Big white text on a black background. Parts of the words "The" and "Big" . Its striking if you like that monochrome block capitals kind of thing.
Images from the three pamphlet covers, mostly grayscale. Three are some photographed high rise buildings, a close up of a black leather jacket and a drawing of what looks like a figure in a maze
Abstract. A red splodge on a black splurge on a yellow squidge.
The Friday Poem 'Part of me can't hear the moon calling any more' by Emma Simon