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 photograph showing an open hand with some dried flowers on it. The background is pink
Haynes car workshop manual photoshopped to look like a poetry pamphlet owners workshop manual, blue with a white book on it.
A fancy proscenium arch on a stage in gold and red. Underneath on the stage are a man and a woman in Arabic dress.
uneven red nearly vertical stripes on a white background. The words "Eat or we both starve" run across the page in a blue uppercase font, the text has a white background which bisects the red stripes.
Slightly abstract painting in block colours, Yellow, beige, green, grey, sky blue, representing a building, the sky with a sun or a moon and a single window. oh, and some bricks
I think you get it, John
Book cover of 'Time' by Etel Adnan
A rust red concrete slab wall with words "The Dereliction" written in stencil font.
A black background with a red brush stroke image that looks like a fox. The image is red and is surrounded by white text with the words THE RAKE in block capitals.
Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks
A predominantly black and white old photograph of an oldish woman standing if front of a stone house, arms akimbo. She is dressed in black and wearing a black bonnet-like hat. Her apron is in colour and embroidered with large primitive flower shapes.
photo of Katrina Naomi in a green fifties dress and with a yellow flower in her hair