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!

Close up of a parchment coloured map showing Spanish place names written in italic script.
Photograph of a long shed-like house on iron stilts.
Painting in bright colours showing a copse of trees.
Bad Betties written in black curly script on a white background there are some footprints and nude female silhouettes a candle and a broomstick.
A fancy proscenium arch on a stage in gold and red. Underneath on the stage are a man and a woman in Arabic dress.
black and white picture of Wendy, she has short hair and a striped Breton style top. She has books behind .
'Dad's 75th birthday party after the heart attack by Rachel Burns' in black text on white with half a small Friday Poem yellow blob disappearing from the right hand side.
Some black and white text (part of the book title) on a red background. For extra 'artistic design' points the text lines are slanted diagonally.
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Dane Holt" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
"Because this is a Venice Poem (after Tishani Doshi) by Rachel Spence" in black text on white with a Friday Poem yellow blob below the text like a rising / setting sun.
The Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson
Mottephobia