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!

Seven women sitting on a sofa.
Escape
black and white portrait of Jane, head tilted, blond hair, glasses with white and grey striped frames, and a smile
A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.
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.
Book cover The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby showing two rustic types planting a tree
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.
Purple cover with yellowish feathers drawn on. bit like wallpaper. There is an ostrich, and the book title.
Four black and white head shots of the poets in this article arranged in a grid
An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea
Watercolour showing green grass, white flowers and two leafy trees with a light blue sky.
Clint Eastwood in full cowboy regalia standing in front of a road sign saying 'Welcome to Kent'.