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!

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.
The background is waves of pink and light blue. On top is a line drawing showing hands holding a heart shape with the word 'cursed' on it.
part of the cover of the book The Slowing Ride by Will Stone; looks like broken glazed tiles in turquoise and green and grey, there's a bit of a female face in the middle but mostly it's just cracked and weird
Composite picture of Hippocrates, the Hippocratic oath and the Rod of Asclepius
Black and white image of young people at an anti Nazi rally, they are carrying banners with "stop the nazis" and "stop racist attacks"
The Control Room
The eyes of the Bard almost like he's looking through a letterbox, on a yellow rectangle on an off white background
Black text on white reads: "How It Began by Charlotte Muse". There's half a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob on the far left hand side.
Black and white image showing mathematical drawings and equations.
Two book covers, one yellow, one green.
The Friday Poem 'Flying the Lanner' by Tony Curtis
Collage made up of pictures from the instagram feed of the poets mentioned in the article. There are images of the poets looking direct to camera and also some words such as 'compassion must prevail'. Also a cat sitting on a table.