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!

The blue violinist by Marc Chagall showing aviolinist dressed in blue:green on a blue background. His cheeks are red and he has a white bird on his shoulder.
Blue Chinese wallpaper showing a watercolour design with trees and small birds. There are small flowers too.
Wind-up people
A woman holding a microphone. She is on stage with some funky purple and blue lighting.
The colour blue
Black text on white reads: 'Epitaphs by Stephen Payne' with half a big yellow Friday Poem blob rising like a sun from the bottom edge
"How to Speak Crocodile by Christina Dunhill" in black text on white with a small yellow Friday Poem blob on the far right.
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.
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.
What the owl said to me
Graphic showing an orange circle on a yellow background. A yellow shape like a small lightbulb dangles into the top of the circle.
A pencil sketch, grey on a cream background. Looks like the branches of a tree.