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 rust red concrete slab wall with words "The Dereliction" written in stencil font.
What looks like an acrylic painting of vines, berries and white flowers.
"Lessons in The Method #23 by Martin Jago" in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the #23
Picture of Emma smiling with shoulder length brown hair wearing blue shirt and dungarees sitting behind a table full of books.
The Friday Poem 'Portrait of the Poet as an Artist' by Chris Edgoose
Homage to Avram
Front cover of book 'When I Think of my Body as a Horse' by Wendy Pratt, showing a horse with musculature visible
Bookshelf photograph showing various titles and...inexplicably a glass of water. Water? Absinthe maybe...but water?
Image from a book illustrating the dialect poem 'The Lion and Albert' showing four people in Edwardian dress discussing something. The picture is titled 'The manager had to be sent for.'
Pathé News Visits the Ace of Spades
A a detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. It's a night scene showing fires and silhouettes of houses. At the bottom right light shines through an archway.
A section from what could be a stained glass window; it shows a central diamond shape with a blue background and a yellow horse silhouette standing on a yellow crown. There are diamonds of dark and pale red and yellow around.