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!

Natalie Shaw, wearing glasses and standing in front of a green wall with a framed painting on it.
Mirage
Montage showing three book covers. They are similar – each has a black background with a number of different coloured triangles superimposed. The chaps at Ignition press like triangles, I guess. Who am I to judge?
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Dane Holt" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
The colour blue
Close up of Mike Bartholomew-Biggs' smiling face. He has light coloured hair, a greying small beard and glasses.
Haynes car workshop manual photoshopped to look like a poetry pamphlet owners workshop manual, blue with a white book on it.
A line drawing showing an anchor and a compass on a cream background.
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.
Three large fishhooks dangling on what looks like hemp rope, a small green (jade?) fish swims between them.
a black and white portrait of Clare, she is turned from the camera, scar tissue is visible were her breasts were
‘Vlad Dracul Is Pissed Off That You People Killed His Wife by Matthew Bullen’ in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob in the top left hand corner.