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
The Solvent Properties of Water
Black text on white reads: "Double first, 1957 by Beatrice Garland" with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the 1957
Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.
Oh, someday, girl, I don't know when by Sharon Black in black text on white with a big yellow Friday Poem blob over the middle
Painting of leaves on a gold background, There is bay, and possibly corn.
Black and white photograph of Picasso and Éluard in conversation.
Black text on white reads "Three poems by Dane Holt" with a yellow Friday Poem blob over part of the image.
Section of the book cover. What looks like rows of small squareish woodblock shapes in pinky red on a yellow background.
Photo of Jill Abram. She has long curly hair and is standing in front of trees.
Part of a painting of an Old Testament scene where white-bearded patriarch Methuselah has instructed Noah to open a prophetic scroll which foretells the flood sent by God. Circling ravens add to the sense of foreboding, while antediluvian revellers continue their dancing in the middle distance, oblivious of the devastation to come.
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.