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!

"Lessons in The Method #23 by Martin Jago" in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the #23
poster of keep calm and share poetry in white block capitals on red background
Picture of Anne she has long blond hair and is smiling, there is a blurred painting in the background
A painted book cover with a blue background. A thick swirling dark blue brush stroke bisects the page horizontally. three partial circles hover in the background like alien planets. Light blue, mid blue and (nope not another blue) red.
Black text on white reads ‘Trial and Error by Josh Geffin’ with a tiny yellow Friday Poem blob over the ‘o’ in Error.
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, dressed in yellow, striding forward into the projected fantasy of her come-back
The Friday Poem 'Guitar' by Tess Jolly
Pieces of text in red and gold on a dark blue book cover.
A misty photo showing train tracks disappearing to a vanishing point.
Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'
‘The Sound of the Struggle by Charles Rammelkamp’ in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the ‘Str’ of Struggle
A painting on canvas showing a large yellow blob and some smaller blobs (also yellow) on a purple-blue background.