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!

Morphine Driver
A collage showing a robin, some soldiers playing football, a Christmas tree, a goose, a running policeman, a pudding and curiously a copy of 'The Joy of Sex'
Reading Banville
A collage showing many images — a clenched fist, a skull and crossbones, a pair of handcuffs, a tortoise? and others, you get the idea. There is also scrawled text, such as 'Use your voice' and 'Stop the attacks'
The Friday Poem 'Guitar' by Tess Jolly
Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a health worker in PPE on a blue background, one is yellow with black text running down the centre of the page and one is half white with purple text , the other half has what may be a woodcut in what may be ethnic patterns.
The Friday Poem 'The Baby in the Wardrobe' by Kathy Pimlott
looks like a sculpture of a red haired woman with wings (angel or dragon?) holding on to the left arm of a male figure.
Waiting with Leszek
Section from a painting showing pair of well worn leather boots, hobnails on the soles.
A collection of six images showing a snowflake, a Christmas tree, a turkey, a close up of a hand removing a decoration from a tree, a black Santa and a toy train set.
Partial book cover photograph showing a city at night from above. Traffic and lights can be seen, and a flyover. Black, grey and red are the main colours.