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!

Ryan Van Winkle standing in front of a stone wall. He has glasses and a grey jacket.
Watercolour showing green grass, white flowers and two leafy trees with a light blue sky.
Close up graphic of a green leaf. It is partially transparent on a white background, and the veins running through the leaf are clearly visible.
"Party" as Both Verb and Moral Imperative by Katherine Meehan" in black text on white with a large yellow Friday Poem blob over the top right quarter
Part of the words "Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire" in white italic script font on a purple background.
Section of a book cover. It's mostly black, with silver grey lines that could be woodcuts. It shows in roughly square boxes, a tree, a tower, a bridge, some leaves and a curly vertical squiggle. Nope, I don't know either.
Photograph of Helen Evans. She has short grey hair and is clasping her hands and leaning to her left.
green front cover of poetry book How To Wash A Heart by Bhanu Kapil
Slightly abstract painting in block colours, Yellow, beige, green, grey, sky blue, representing a building, the sky with a sun or a moon and a single window. oh, and some bricks
Observation
Section of a book cover. The background is blue and parts of the letters A and F are shown in a bold yellow font.
Close up of the two book covers, the Hit Points Anthologies, one red one green