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!

Hand holding a red balloon, written on the balloon in white text is the following "Before I have time to answer, I’m in bed with Daniel Craig. He’s stirring out of sleep, smelling of Tobacco Vanille."
A painted book cover with a blue background. A thick swirling dark blue brush stroke bisects the page horizontally. three partial circles hover in the background like alien planets. Light blue, mid blue and (nope not another blue) red.
Dark blue background. On this are two light blue outlines of hands, open palms upwards. Some beige swirling lines are behind.
Black text on white reads: from 'Testimonies (Scotland 1623 - 1930)' by Hamish Whyte
Black and white photograph showing a poet sitting outside at a tiny table with a typewriter. There is a handwritten sign saying "Poet for hire, pay what you like".
"Wetsuit by Regina Weinert" in black text on white with half a large Friday Poem yellow blob like a low sun top right.
‘Vlad Dracul Is Pissed Off That You People Killed His Wife by Matthew Bullen’ in black text on white with a yellow Friday Poem blob in the top left hand corner.
Quellenstraße, 1100
Slug by Hollie McNish, orange text on a purple background
Waiting with Leszek
A paper cut out of Taras Shevchenko's house. the roof is red and there is a dormer window in the roof , it looks traditional, there is a more modern building in the background and grass in the foreground
Image of a white skull on a black background. The skull has a pink flower in the right eye socket.