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!

Image showing the painting 'The Goldfish' by Paul Klee. It shows, unsurprisingly, a goldfish on a textured blue background; there are other small fish artfully arranged (well it is your actual Paul Klee innit) in the corners.
Section of a book cover. It's mostly black, with silver grey lines that could be woodcuts. It shows in roughly square boxes, a tree, a tower, a bridge, some leaves and a curly vertical squiggle. Nope, I don't know either.
We see the back of a young girl standing on the stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. She is wearing a denim jacket and her arms are outstretched.
About the Building
Houses of the poets
Black text on white reads: 'Old Woman Ravine by Jennifer Copley' with a quarter of a small yellow Friday Poem blob just visible in the bottom right hand corner.
Holy
Illustration showing an open Hand with what loloks like a ribbon running over the palm. On closer inspection the ribbon is a road with a small car on it.
Hand holding a red balloon, written on the balloon in white text is the following "Before I have time to answer, I’m in bed with Daniel Craig. He’s stirring out of sleep, smelling of Tobacco Vanille."
Folio
A poem laid out a page in the shape of a bird. It looks old.
Photograph of a muddy track leading into a woodland. The trees leaves are a vivid green and it looks like it has been raining.