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!

Paris at night in silhouette.
Photo of Sarah Leavesley standing in front of a brick wall. She is holding two bits of a picture frame. Oh! She's framed! But the bits of frame have words on ... 'Only ever part-' on the top one and '-ially framed' on the bottom one. Oh, I get it now. Clever.
The Friday Poem 'Portrait of the Poet as an Artist' by Chris Edgoose
Section from the book cover. An abstract image that could be a sun and yellow sand, but ... you know.
"Wetsuit by Regina Weinert" in black text on white with half a large Friday Poem yellow blob like a low sun top right.
Bright purple background with a light coloured wavy line in a loose arch
head and shoulders photo of Mike Laskey looking a bit poetic in a red jumper and black beret (Breton rather than Basque, going by the dimensions) against blue sky and a bit of beach and sea
Pieces of text in red and gold on a dark blue book cover.
Black text on white reads ‘Sisters, by Karen Smith’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob at the far right top corner.
Kim Moore with red hair wearing a green top and green check dungarees leaning against a tree
'Lights Out by Christian Wethered' in black text on white with a quarter of a tiny Friday Poem yellow blob disappearing into the lower right hand corner.
Kind ofd abstract blocky design in blue and grey with a pause icon in a orange circle in the centre.