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 image showing a black circle on a white background containing blue, orange and red splodges. Some spill over the page outside the circle. Landsick? Maybe.
A painting on canvas showing a large yellow blob and some smaller blobs (also yellow) on a purple-blue background.
Painting showing wide red an white horizontakl stripes, in th top left corner is a drawing of a gun on a blue background. Some white stars are at the bottom.
Ryan Van Winkle standing in front of a stone wall. He has glasses and a grey jacket.
Scrawled writing and symbols in black red and yellow completely cover a parchment-coloured background.
Cream text on a red background. For added excitement, this text is vertical!
A black and white beetle seen from above on white textured paper.
Watercolour showing green grass, white flowers and two leafy trees with a light blue sky.
A predominantly black and white old photograph of an oldish woman standing if front of a stone house, arms akimbo. She is dressed in black and wearing a black bonnet-like hat. Her apron is in colour and embroidered with large primitive flower shapes.
Folio
Images from the three pamphlet covers, mostly grayscale. Three are some photographed high rise buildings, a close up of a black leather jacket and a drawing of what looks like a figure in a maze
Black text on white reads ‘Buggy Baby by Rowan Bell’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob over the far right hand corner.