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!

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, dressed in yellow, striding forward into the projected fantasy of her come-back
Slightly blurred mostly blue picture of a white lighthouse on the end of a pier.
alice hiller with curly blonde hair wearing a grey jacket standing in a formal park
Greta Stoddart looking directly at the camera, smiling. She has brown hair with a grey streak and she's wearing a black shirt with small blue and red flowers on.
three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter
uneven red nearly vertical stripes on a white background. The words "Eat or we both starve" run across the page in a blue uppercase font, the text has a white background which bisects the red stripes.
Headshots of 12 reviewers. They are smiling or looking intently at the camera.
Photo of Kathy Pimlott. She has short grey hair, glasses and is holding a glass of wine. She is wearing ablue polo necked jumper and a necklace of orange wooden beads. Photo by Matthew Paul.
Black and white image of young people at an anti Nazi rally, they are carrying banners with "stop the nazis" and "stop racist attacks"
Morphine Driver
Black text on white reads: 'The Laugh by Christopher Arksey' with the bottom third of a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob at the top middle edge
My Country