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!

A Harp So Strung with Rain
Coloured drawing showing the mind map process. There is a small picture of a woman's head in the centre and lines of text on various colours running all over the page a little like the branches of a tree.
We see the back of a young girl standing on the stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. She is wearing a denim jacket and her arms are outstretched.
a black handprint on a white background with a yellow stripe down the left hand side
family photo of six people plus cat from the 1918 flu pandemic
Pop Art-style graphic showing a 50s style pin-up girl lounging on a big old American car.
Photo of Sarah Leavesley standing in front of a brick wall. She is holding two bits of a picture frame. Oh! She's framed! But the bits of frame have words on ... 'Only ever part-' on the top one and '-ially framed' on the bottom one. Oh, I get it now. Clever.
a hand holding a pen with a blue winners rosette attached to it
Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'
Graphic with a white background showing various leaf like shapes, predominantly blue and black with the occasional green and orange . They could be seaweed. Who knows.
The three pamphlet covers, Sarah's is white with a green diagonal flash, Judi's has the title in a blue oval on a background pencil drawing of a river and rocks and Hugo's is the shadow of banister railings non a light brown background.
Black and white print showing a black background with white horizontal stripes. A circle of this is cut out and slid down showing a white background.