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!

Photograph of a muddy track leading into a woodland. The trees leaves are a vivid green and it looks like it has been raining.
Mom cooks fish
The Inheritors
The Break
Section of the book cover. What looks like rows of small squareish woodblock shapes in pinky red on a yellow background.
A a detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. It's a night scene showing fires and silhouettes of houses. At the bottom right light shines through an archway.
Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.
Visions of Juana
Ink line drawing on crumpled cartridge paper. A round face looks almost like a tribal mask with an open mouth and a block bad around and across the eyes (though we can still see the eyes). The nose is a triangle.
Mottephobia
Snowday
A painting on canvas showing a large yellow blob and some smaller blobs (also yellow) on a purple-blue background.