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!

Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'
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.
Image of a white skull on a black background. The skull has a pink flower in the right eye socket.
The words 'God Complex' in a yellow serif font on a light green background. Its a Faber cover. I think that they are a bit dull to be honest ... but you know, one person's dull is the other person's classic.
Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.
Paul Muldoon standing in front of a grey wall looking 'ard. He has grey curly hair and glasses, and he is wearing a brown tweed jacket and tie and a dark shirt.
Mirage
Section from the book cover. An abstract image that could be a sun and yellow sand, but ... you know.
Black text on white reads ‘Buggy Baby by Rowan Bell’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob over the far right hand corner.
A ripe Camembert a bottle of Gaillac red wine with a poem on the label and a half full glass in front of a yellow window. The poem is Zaleo Premium by Matthew Stewart
Black text on white reads: "Double first, 1957 by Beatrice Garland" with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the 1957
Dark navy blue background with semi-circular lines in green and blue. They look a bit like the lines you draw around a radio tower or loudspeaker, to indicate vibration or noise.