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!

An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea
Dark blue background. On this are two light blue outlines of hands, open palms upwards. Some beige swirling lines are behind.
A composite image made of six images, comprising a man looking at distant fireworks, a ticking bomb, a candle, some cows in a field, some burning paper and a pair of moccasins.I know right. You'll have to read the article to find out.
The Unicyclist of Benghazi
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.
Black and white photo showing three policemen with riot helmets on a Northern backstreet.
The three pamphlet covers, Sarah's is white with a green diagonal flash, Judi's has the title in a blue oval on a background pencil drawing of a river and rocks and Hugo's is the shadow of banister railings non a light brown background.
Cliff Yates' poetry bookshelf — a shelf with poetry books on.
photo of Sharon, she has dark hair and is smiling
Photograph showing a streets in Leeds city center. They are empty apart from one figure in the middle of the street
Hares cunningly disguised as squiggles. On a grey background.
The last time, by Ann Gray