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 and white composite image of Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards.
Crop from cover of RENDANG by Will Harris, bright red blue and yellow letters on white
Black and white head and shoulders photo of Helena Nelson smiling into the camera against the background of a field
Black and white image showing what looks like abstracted, shrouded figures.
A red background has a repeating pattern on it, the pattern comprises two open hands with stigmata, a syringe with a needle and some figs, halved and whole.
'Bookcase by Derek Coggrave' in black text on white with a small Friday Poem yellow blob over the last three letters of Coggrave.
Here is Bernie Saunders in Mittens
Evolution
photo of Kae Tempest, short hair, black polo shirt
Big white text on a black background. Parts of the words "The" and "Big" . Its striking if you like that monochrome block capitals kind of thing.
Photo of Suzannah Evans, she has shoulder length brown hair, glasses and a light blue shirt with pictures of birds on.
Black text on white reads ‘Buggy Baby by Rowan Bell’ with a Friday Poem yellow blob over the far right hand corner.