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 drawing in green on an off-white background. Looks a bit like a musical instrument, could be a mandolin or maybe a lyre.
Twenty four Quotes About Poetry: Who Said What?
Front cover of 'Still' by Christopher Meredith showing two small black birds perched on a tree branch in the snow
uneven red nearly vertical stripes on a white background. The words "Eat or we both starve" run across the page in a blue uppercase font, the text has a white background which bisects the red stripes.
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.
Black text on white reads ‘Apple blossom by Jackie Wills’ with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the word ‘Apple’.
 Imagining Sow
‘My Dog Brings me Back to Death by Victoria Gatehouse’ in black text on white with a teeny yellow Friday Poem blob over the words ‘My Dog'.
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.
Lorna with short gray hair, she is wearing glasses.
Black text on white reads: 'The Lego House by Alexandra Masters' with a large yellow Friday Poem blob over the word 'Lego' and the first part of 'Alexandra'.
An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea