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.
Photograph of what looks like a goalpost at dusk. Its hard to tell though, it could be a large staple superimposed on a landscape background.
The Friday Poem 'The Baby in the Wardrobe' by Kathy Pimlott
A collage showing a robin, some soldiers playing football, a Christmas tree, a goose, a running policeman, a pudding and curiously a copy of 'The Joy of Sex'
Old black and white picture of Billy Childish and Tracey Erin from the back cover of Childish's Zine 'Prity Thing'.
'The Importance of Being Earnest by Jeanette Burton' in black text on white with a big yellow Friday Poem blob over the right hand lower side.
Found by a man who was walking his dog
A man and a woman in period costume from around the 1600s by the look of the wig. They are standing either side of a chemists wooden counter and red smoke billows in the air
Purple cover with yellowish feathers drawn on. bit like wallpaper. There is an ostrich, and the book title.
Graphic with a green background showing a repeating motif of drawn black and white bicycles. It would make excellent wallpaper for a keen cyclist.
Martin and Helen standing in front of a wall, he is wearing a blue suit with red trainers, she is wearing a slightly retro frock in black with a white lace collar, she has fifty style glasses and a grey cardigan.
A book cover showing what looks like two purple tinted, torn paper images of a woman's face . One shows two eyes and a bit of nose, the other shows one eye , half a nose and a mouth.