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!

Letters from the book title arranged vertically in three columns on a grey-green background. The letters are coloured in patterns go green and white that seem to suggest leaves, or trees. Yeah, I dunno either.
A photograph of a bearded man with wild greying hair. The words 'LIFE'S ALWAYS BEEN A BATTLE BETWEEN DEAD POETS AND LIVING' are superimposed in white text.
Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.
montage of eight eco poetry book covers illustrated with a variety of trees leaves and one large crashing wave.
Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.
Funeral
Black text on white reads: "Double first, 1957 by Beatrice Garland" with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the 1957
an abstract concrete like shape on a sky background, there are six holes each one drips coloured paint,red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
Abstract. A red splodge on a black splurge on a yellow squidge.
Coda
Crop from cover of RENDANG by Will Harris, bright red blue and yellow letters on white
Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks