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!

What the owl said to me
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
Found by a man who was walking his dog
Pathé News Visits the Ace of Spades
Black and white portrait photograph of Roger Elkin somehow looking both serious and impish.
Wind-up people
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Lex Runciman" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
Graphic with a green background showing a repeating motif of drawn black and white bicycles. It would make excellent wallpaper for a keen cyclist.
Big white text on a black background. Parts of the words "The" and "Big" . Its striking if you like that monochrome block capitals kind of thing.
Letters from the book title arranged vertically in three columns on a grey-green background. The letters are coloured in patterns go green and white that seem to suggest leaves, or trees. Yeah, I dunno either.
Reading Banville
A tiny man defending himself from a large and dangerous looking cat! Its a poster image from the film " The Incredible Shrinking Man"