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!

Frozen
Out of the blue
Elephants
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.
Bad Betties written in black curly script on a white background there are some footprints and nude female silhouettes a candle and a broomstick.
Part of the cover of the first edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'. It shows a bearded fellow sitting halfway up a mast ringing a bell. It's a bit windy.
My Country
What looks like a painting in two panels. Both show an abstract wave breaking. On one side the sky is blue, on the other side it is black. The bottom of the 'sea' is red.
Photo of a meat market porter at work
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
A clump of light green moss on a black background
Heft