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!

Textured image in charcoal and grey. It's probably tea.
Eventually
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.
a green lawn close up with some bowling balls on it , a red flash on the top left corner reads "The Worlds finest bowls"
Chestnut ribbon of speed
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.
A tiny man defending himself from a large and dangerous looking cat! Its a poster image from the film " The Incredible Shrinking Man"
A black background with a painting of a vertical hand. A small red snake is entwined in the fingers and the tail seems to be piercing the palm.
The words "You're fucking lost 
and fucking found 
stuck in fucking 
chicken town" in white stencil font on a black background
Black and white image showing what looks like abstracted, shrouded figures.
A section taken from the front cover, parts of the words "The" and "Arctic3 can be seen. Th cover is brown with cream text. What can you do?
Celestial Objects