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 looks like a Japanese wood cut showing four warriors in black and white.
A poem laid out a page in the shape of a bird. It looks old.
an abstract concrete like shape on a sky background, there are six holes each one drips coloured paint,red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
Front cover of 'Still' by Christopher Meredith showing two small black birds perched on a tree branch in the snow
Photo of Katrina standing on the shore. Crab pots are behind her. Photo by Joe Grabham.
Looking through an underpass. A house can be discerned through distant mist.
Black and white photo showing Elizabeth Bishop standing in front of some rocks.
Here is Bernie Saunders in Mittens
Could be a woodcut, a black and white graphic of o woman's face, her chin is rising in her hand.
Painting in bright colours showing a copse of trees.
Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.
Some part words in yellow font on a green background. Basically, the cover of this book is yellow text on a green background, so to make it look just a little bit more interesting for the front page I have zoomed right in and cropped the image. Voilà.