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!

Revelations  01/01/2022
Photobombing Dad’s moment
Insomnia
The Friday Poem 'Las Ciguenas' by Matthew Stewart
Oil painting in mostly grey and blue showing a jug and two bowls on a shelf
The Friday Poem 'Portrait of the Poet as an Artist' by Chris Edgoose
A woman holding a microphone. She is on stage with some funky purple and blue lighting.
I think it's wool. Mostly blue but with th occasional red splurge. Oh, and there are some, drops of water that look frozen.
A collage showing a rocky landscape next to the sea with various objects superimposed, more information is in the screen-reader text on our Christmas Quiz page
The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background
Homage to Avram
Paris at night in silhouette.