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 title of the book in seraph font on a an apricot background. Could do better.
Black text on white reads ‘Apple blossom by Jackie Wills’ with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the word ‘Apple’.
illustration showing a woman with blue skin covered in images, light blue leaves intertwine with pink flowers, a yellow sun on each breast.
Shocking pink background with a drawing of two demons stabbing a bearded figure the bearded figure is lying on the ground and has a halo
Black and white image of an intense looking young man, on the light grey background are some partially obscured words from Spenders poem "In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic"
The Friday Poem 'Book' by Meg Peacocke
Black text on white reads: 'Visiting David Hockney by Michael Di Placido' with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the top half of the 'it' 'in ‘visiting.
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.
Part of a painting showing a baldheaded figure with a red nose. There is also a bird wrapped in red thread. The figure has a wooden violin tuning peg stuck in one ear.
A Friday clearly isn't a Friday without an abstract poetry book cover to describe. I am almost, but not quite, at a loss for words. Here we go, poetry fans! Pop art seems to be the style choice. Purple jagged forks of what looks like lightening cross diagonally passing behind white cloud like formations (although one does seem to have a dark doorway in, so it may not be a cloud). Green ribbons, a blue sky and a red dot top right complete the picture. Ah ... poetry.
Black text on white reads: ‘The Climbing Frame by Sarah Corbett' with half a small yellow Friday Poem blob just leaving from the top right hand side.
"While driving to Ikea for a laundry basket by Heidi Beck' in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob over the first half of the word 'laundry'.