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!

The Solvent Properties of Water
A thumbs up and a two fingers salute in front of a poetry submission letter
Swirling blue. tinted background looks a bit like sand. There is a flat tree shape possibly made of seaweed and some random shells are lying on the aforementioned gray blue swirly sand stuff.
An abstract design. The left hand third of the image is yellow, the right hand two-thirds is black with one orange and two yellow triangles.
Woodcuts seem to be very popular as illustrations for poetry book covers. This looks like it is indeed a woodcut (or a clever imposter).Predominantly blue it shows a night scene with a moon and a path leading to a house in the hills.
Edwin Morgan in front of a large bookcase
Paris at night in silhouette.
The Instrument
Colourful almost paisley image with curving floral designs in the foreground on a background of blue white with brown tendril like patterns
Three pieces of fruit, made out of wood on a pale background. Pretty sure one is a pear and more than 80% sure that another represents an apple. The last could well be a beef tomato, then again a teeny pumpkin fits too.
"While driving to Ikea for a laundry basket by Heidi Beck' in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob over the first half of the word 'laundry'.
Black text on white reads: 'Art on the Walls by Nicholas McGaughey' with a quarter of a small yellow Friday Poem blob in the top right hand corner.