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!

Photo of Sarah Leavesley standing in front of a brick wall. She is holding two bits of a picture frame. Oh! She's framed! But the bits of frame have words on ... 'Only ever part-' on the top one and '-ially framed' on the bottom one. Oh, I get it now. Clever.
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.
a hand holding a pen with a blue winners rosette attached to it
A blue background with some gold solid circles and some gold circle outlines. They look a little like planets.
What looks like an ancient Greek plate or bowl. A bloke with a bad back seems to be have been bitten by a snake and he is gesticulating towards a reclining fellow who is possibly having his heart pecked out by a large bird of prey. Lotta blood, but they were rough in them days.
This is a dark book cover (could have guessed really, "Mouth of Shadows" and all that). The image looks like the inside of a cave (think "Lord of the Rings") a light comes from above and throws a circular glow on the floor.
Black and white portrait photograph of Roger Elkin somehow looking both serious and impish.
A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.
we hope to have sand in our shoes
A Friday clearly isn't a Friday without an abstract poetry book cover to describe. I am almost, but not quite, at a loss for words. Here we go, poetry fans! Pop art seems to be the style choice. Purple jagged forks of what looks like lightening cross diagonally passing behind white cloud like formations (although one does seem to have a dark doorway in, so it may not be a cloud). Green ribbons, a blue sky and a red dot top right complete the picture. Ah ... poetry.
Waiting with Leszek
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.