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!

Pastel shades, probably watercolour, showing a bedroom interior with an open window and a traditional iron bedstead.
Monochrome photograph showing the silhouette of a woman standing on a small rock in the sea.
Black shapes on a bright pink/purple background. On the shapes the word amino is written in vertical fragments "AM" "N" "IO" "N"
Slightly blurred mostly blue picture of a white lighthouse on the end of a pier.
Blue Chinese wallpaper showing a watercolour design with trees and small birds. There are small flowers too.
Morphine Driver
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.
Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.
Selima Hill wearing a scarf around her neck and a headscarf/bandanna type of thing. It looks good.
Black and white head and shoulders photo of Helena Nelson smiling into the camera against the background of a field
A poem laid out a page in the shape of a bird. It looks old.
The Friday Poem 'Guitar' by Tess Jolly