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!

collage art incorporating a mans back, a woman's leg, various plants, a lobster claw , a turtle shell and a fly agaric mushroom. All on a pale blue background.
Black text on white reads ‘Apple blossom by Jackie Wills’ with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the word ‘Apple’.
Close up of the two book covers, the Hit Points Anthologies, one red one green
Black text on white reads ‘Evening on the Porch by Jodie Hollander’ with a small quarter of a yellow Friday Poem blob sinking into the left bottom corner.
Funeral
Black and white photograph of Edgar Allan Poe. He looks intently at the camera.
Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.
Artwork in a graphic style showing the back of a man walking towards a tall building with many windows. The sky appears to be on fire.
A photograph of a bearded man with wild greying hair. The words 'LIFE'S ALWAYS BEEN A BATTLE BETWEEN DEAD POETS AND LIVING' are superimposed in white text.
Naive painting of the backs of two people sitting on a wall, one has a red headscarf and orange skirt, one is dressed in black
Erasures
Picture of Anne she has long blond hair and is smiling, there is a blurred painting in the background