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!

Photo of Vanessa Kisuule standing in front of a green and purple wall. She is looking to her right and smiling.
The word Orlam in black script on a parchment background. The "O" is enormous and is surrounded by small line drawings of birds and insects in red. White lines like trees are in the background, and a black line-drawn lamb hangs in the centre.
Old copperplate writing on a white background.
head and shoulders photo of Mike Laskey looking a bit poetic in a red jumper and black beret (Breton rather than Basque, going by the dimensions) against blue sky and a bit of beach and sea
three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter
A composite image of three brightly coloured children's poetry book covers.
Black text on white reads ‘Trial and Error by Josh Geffin’ with a tiny yellow Friday Poem blob over the ‘o’ in Error.
Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text
Poetry books on a bookshelf, at least forty of them. I am not going to list them all here, but many appear in the article.
Three poetry pamphlets - 'Fridge' by Selima Hill (blue with a white outline pic of a fridge and a goose on?, 'Oh Be Quiet' by Natalie Shaw (white with a bit of yellow), and 'do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom' by Rachael Matthews - dark green with black outline flowers
Morphine Driver
"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'.