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!

'Beige by Mark Fiddes' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem blob like a small sun.
A posterised image of Britney Spears.
A detail from 'Hato zu' a woodcut by Konen Uchara. It shows a rolling blue ocean with white flecks and a blue sky.
Pen and ink slightly washed out picture of a man's face.
Slightly abstract painting in block colours, Yellow, beige, green, grey, sky blue, representing a building, the sky with a sun or a moon and a single window. oh, and some bricks
illustration showing a woman with blue skin covered in images, light blue leaves intertwine with pink flowers, a yellow sun on each breast.
Bookshelf photograph showing various titles and...inexplicably a glass of water. Water? Absinthe maybe...but water?
Close up of large lettering on an orange background, the lettering contains a photograph showing what looks like a shoreline.
'Dad's 75th birthday party after the heart attack by Rachel Burns' in black text on white with half a small Friday Poem yellow blob disappearing from the right hand side.
Observation
“Not my children, not my rats by Natalie Shaw' in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob over ‘rats’.
Airborne