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!

The last time, by Ann Gray
A black and white beetle seen from above on white textured paper.
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
Abstract black lines on a grey background. Some go up in a diagonal way describing, I dunno, possibly an upside down ice cream cone. Some curve upwards like branches of an abstract tree. Kinda jazzy man.
Three piles of stones on the seashore. Five stones, seven stones, and then five stones. Haiku innit.
A clump of light green moss on a black background
Black and white photo of Chris Hamilton-Emery. He is outside with sea in the background and is wearing a newsboy hat, tinted glasses and a neckerchief.
Portrait of my mother as a hop-picker
The Unicyclist of Benghazi
Bookshelf photograph showing various titles and...inexplicably a glass of water. Water? Absinthe maybe...but water?
Montage showing three book covers. They are similar – each has a black background with a number of different coloured triangles superimposed. The chaps at Ignition press like triangles, I guess. Who am I to judge?
Pastel picture of a fox, birds, butterflies and a mirror reflecting the sea.