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!

Ink line drawing on crumpled cartridge paper. A round face looks almost like a tribal mask with an open mouth and a block bad around and across the eyes (though we can still see the eyes). The nose is a triangle.
'Dad's 75th birthday party after the heart attack by Rachel Burns' in black text on white with half a small Friday Poem yellow blob disappearing from the right hand side.
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Dane Holt" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background
Part of the text "Collecting the Data" in red serif font on a turquoise background.
'Beige by Mark Fiddes' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem blob like a small sun.
The Friday Poem 'Our Children's Childhoods' by Charlotte Gann
Celestial Objects
Anne-Marie Fyfe sitting on a wooden boardwalk in Massachusetts. Wearing a red jacket and a white scarf with dark blue stars around her neck.
diagram showing links between American poets
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.
Close up of text on Elizabeth Bishop's gravestone. Under her name It says "All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful"