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!

Black and white photograph of Sylvia Plath looking directly at the camera. There are bookshelves in the background. It can't be that warm because she's wearing a woolly cardigan with a plaid trim under the buttons.
Two book covers, both have faces on, both looking roughly towards the centre of the image. The left hand image has an head drawn with lots of wavy green lines on a black background, the right hand shows a woman's head mostly hidden by a cloud, we can see her lips and chin and one shoulder.
Three cover images. The first shows some red fruits on branches, the second shows a prism or beaker with blue shapes inside and the third is a turquoise and blue wavy pattern.
Celestial Objects
Black and white photograph of Edgar Allan Poe. He looks intently at the camera.
Anne-Marie Fyfe sitting on a wooden boardwalk in Massachusetts. Wearing a red jacket and a white scarf with dark blue stars around her neck.
Sophie sitting at a desk turning to look at the camera, she has a green jumper, two books are on the desk, her chin is resting on her hand.
Four black and white head shots of the poets in this article arranged in a grid
Photograph of what looks like a goalpost at dusk. Its hard to tell though, it could be a large staple superimposed on a landscape background.
An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea
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.
Insomnia