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!

Lorna with short gray hair, she is wearing glasses.
A dusk sky, lanterns are strung across the image, its all a bit blurred.
a hand holding a pen with a blue winners rosette attached to it
montage of eight eco poetry book covers illustrated with a variety of trees leaves and one large crashing wave.
Blurred black and white photograph of a woman walking with an umbrella.
Holy
Black and white composite image of Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards.
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"
Collateral
Montage showing three book covers. They are similar – each has a black background with a number of different coloured triangles superimposed. The chaps at Ignition press like triangles, I guess. Who am I to judge?
What the owl said to me
Stewart Sanderson standing in a field in front of the Cheviots. He is smiling.. well, why not? It looks like a great place.