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!

Painting of leaves on a gold background, There is bay, and possibly corn.
Part of a painting showing the inside of a house and a long corridor. The lighting suggests it could be evening.
A photograph of a bearded man with wild greying hair. The words 'LIFE'S ALWAYS BEEN A BATTLE BETWEEN DEAD POETS AND LIVING' are superimposed in white text.
Black text on white reads: ‘The Wheel by Kathryn Bevis' with half a a small yellow Friday Poem blob setting over the bottom right hand edge.
Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a health worker in PPE on a blue background, one is yellow with black text running down the centre of the page and one is half white with purple text , the other half has what may be a woodcut in what may be ethnic patterns.
A photograph of a cuckoo with a smaller bird feeding it.
A background of the stock exchange with the words "The economist can tell you about your bank balance, but the poet has a window into your soul" superimposed
Revelations  01/01/2022
Visions of Juana
Airborne
Black and white head and shoulders photo of Helena Nelson smiling into the camera against the background of a field
'Clothesline in Summer by Michael P Aleman' in black text on white with a tiny yellow Friday Poem quarter-blob like a shining sun in the top right hand corner.