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!

Ink stencil style picture of a cat (the Mariscat cat) on a cream watercolour background.
Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.
Evolution
Part of a painting showing a baldheaded figure with a red nose. There is also a bird wrapped in red thread. The figure has a wooden violin tuning peg stuck in one ear.
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.
Martin and Helen standing in front of a wall, he is wearing a blue suit with red trainers, she is wearing a slightly retro frock in black with a white lace collar, she has fifty style glasses and a grey cardigan.
Black and white photo of Ben Wilkinson, a young friendly looking man with glasses
we hope to have sand in our shoes
Poems for all!
Protection
Black and white photo showing three policemen with riot helmets on a Northern backstreet.
Part of a painting showing the inside of a house and a long corridor. The lighting suggests it could be evening.