While most contemporary poetry concerns itself with the transitory absurdity of the everyday, the overlooked fleeting scribbled moments of life, FOUND magazine IS those moments. Letters, lists, notes to self, diaries, handwritten signs, postcards – discarded to the streets to be FOUND by others – reproduced as found, with little or no background to direct interpretation other than the circumstances and location in which the item was discovered. Reading these testaments to life lived is by turns funny, disturbing, heartwarming, moving and poetic.

The website gives examples of the material reproduced in the magazine, with a FIND OF THE WEEK section for the latest finds, but somehow the direct intervention of the digital causes some kind of loss, maybe it is the frailty of the material that can only be reproduced on paper, or maybe the magazine feels more voyeuristic, but we cannot stress this enough…BUY THE MAGAZINE. You will never have read anything like this before, and once you have it will change the way you read the world around you.