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!

A fancy proscenium arch on a stage in gold and red. Underneath on the stage are a man and a woman in Arabic dress.
Black text on white reads: "How It Began by Charlotte Muse". There's half a medium sized yellow Friday Poem blob on the far left hand side.
we hope to have sand in our shoes
Illustration showing an open Hand with what loloks like a ribbon running over the palm. On closer inspection the ribbon is a road with a small car on it.
Coda
Black and white image of an intense looking young man, on the light grey background are some partially obscured words from Spenders poem "In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic"
Black and white photo of Chris Hamilton-Emery. He is outside with sea in the background and is wearing a newsboy hat, tinted glasses and a neckerchief.
Black text on white reads: 'Three poems by Maureen Jivani' with a yellow Friday Poem blob over the right hand side.
Two poetry book covers, one purple with a white crumpled paper image and one black/brown with textures of light brown and semi transparent words.
The February Museum: recent acquisitions
Three cover images. The first shows some red fruits on branches, the second shows a prism or beaker with blue shapes inside and the third is a turquoise and blue wavy pattern.
A drawing in green on an off-white background. Looks a bit like a musical instrument, could be a mandolin or maybe a lyre.