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 bold orange cover showing a line / brush outline of a male torso.
Part of a painting showing the inside of a house and a long corridor. The lighting suggests it could be evening.
Black and white image showing mathematical drawings and equations.
Section of book cover. Here we have another in our endless series of abstract art poetry book covers. This is probably from a painting. splashes of bright colours and faded splurges in muted shades blend together as a background whilst bold horizontal slashes of red paint dominate the foreground.
Haynes car workshop manual photoshopped to look like a poetry pamphlet owners workshop manual, blue with a white book on it.
Photo of Di Slaney looking straight at the camera. The background is dark blue. She has glasses and shoulder length dark hair.
a hand holding a pen with a blue winners rosette attached to it
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.
A painting of a woman shelling peas, the clouds are bright, she has red hair and a blue blouse with small white flowers on it
Slug by Hollie McNish, orange text on a purple background
black and white picture of Wendy, she has short hair and a striped Breton style top. She has books behind .
A pastel hued watercolour of two older people in a squashy bed/ A woman on the left and a man on the right. They are wearing pyjamas and appear to be sleeping in a loose embrace