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!

Part of a graphic showing the top of a wooden noticeboard such as one would seen a church. The top has a small flower cutout.
Black text on white reads: ‘The Wheel by Kathryn Bevis' with half a a small yellow Friday Poem blob setting over the bottom right hand edge.
The Friday Poem 'Flying the Lanner' by Tony Curtis
Escape
A photograph showing Reg Varney sitting in his London bus.If you're old enough you'll remember 'On the buses'. "That's made my day that has, that's really made my day."
The words "We're all in it together" in white bold text on ragged red and blue triangles (a bit like flags) on a white background.
Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.
'The Importance of Being Earnest by Jeanette Burton' in black text on white with a big yellow Friday Poem blob over the right hand lower side.
Black and white photograph of Katherine
Black text on white reads: 'Giving my ex-boss a hand job for £20 (mates rates)’ by Jane Ayres' with a segment of a yellow Friday Poem blob on the far right hand side.
looks like a sculpture of a red haired woman with wings (angel or dragon?) holding on to the left arm of a male figure.
Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a photograph of a river crossing sand to the sea, one has what looks like an abstract pattern of leaves in shades of brown and one is very pale green with block text in a kind of marbled pattern.