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!

Picture of Don looking straight at the camera, He has a gray beard and a bald head, black jacket and white shirt.
The last time, by Ann Gray
A painted book cover with a blue background. A thick swirling dark blue brush stroke bisects the page horizontally. three partial circles hover in the background like alien planets. Light blue, mid blue and (nope not another blue) red.
Painting in bright colours showing a copse of trees.
A window at night with twilight streaming through. Or it could be a streetlight. Twilight is more poetic though, innit?
A white plastic safety helmet floats on the water; underneath it numerous goose barnacles are attached.
Image showing the painting 'The Goldfish' by Paul Klee. It shows, unsurprisingly, a goldfish on a textured blue background; there are other small fish artfully arranged (well it is your actual Paul Klee innit) in the corners.
Boulder Song
Black text on white reads: 'The Lego House by Alexandra Masters' with a large yellow Friday Poem blob over the word 'Lego' and the first part of 'Alexandra'.
Now, If you have been paying attention you will have noticed my increasing frustration with book covers that really show no effort. This one is kind of pinkish with a cartridge paper like lined texture, almost as if they hade made the cover from, well, pinkish cartridge paper.
Cream text on a red background. For added excitement, this text is vertical!
The Biddy Boys