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 tiny man defending himself from a large and dangerous looking cat! Its a poster image from the film " The Incredible Shrinking Man"
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Dane Holt" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
Greta Stoddart looking directly at the camera, smiling. She has brown hair with a grey streak and she's wearing a black shirt with small blue and red flowers on.
Photo of Vanessa Kisuule standing in front of a green and purple wall. She is looking to her right and smiling.
Picture of Anne she has long blond hair and is smiling, there is a blurred painting in the background
Heft
Drawing of a cow with wings on a pink background. It is saying 'Bong' and it's by Spike Milligan.
Chestnut ribbon of speed
A bold orange cover showing a line / brush outline of a male torso.
Poetry books on a bookshelf, at least forty of them. I am not going to list them all here, but many appear in the article.
Jamón Ibérico
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