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!

Black text on white reads ‘Ping by Martyn Crucefix’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob over the word ‘Ping’.
Observation
Snowday
Black and white image of Patricia Beer, she is wearing a dark jacket and is standing in front of conifers. Her expression is knowing.
Close up black and white photograph of a woman's face. She is looking down.
Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses
A black and white woodcut print. It is abstract in nature, but seems to show glasses, one upturned with a spider in it.
Curved off-white lines in a slightly art deco style, or maybe resembling pipes in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory surround the word Contra-flow in a block capital decorative font. All of this is on a dark brown background.
Pen and ink slightly washed out picture of a man's face.
Book cover of 'Time' by Etel Adnan
Frozen
family photo of six people plus cat from the 1918 flu pandemic