'Poetry Found' is a series of little poetry booklets, half the size of a business card. Small but perfectly formed and just waiting to be found. Poetry can be found anywhere, it doesn't have to be confined to the pages of a book (although this does make it easier to leave it in public places!) 'Poetry Found' is also an inversion of the poetic form 'found poetry' which again reinforces the idea of poetry being everywhere and of course, they're just waiting to be 'found' and enjoyed!
Booklets are generally scattered by the contributing poets and the Liverpool poet, but if you are interested in becoming a puff of poetic wind that sends our seeds on their way, just send a message.
Because 'Poetry Found' is not funded, if you would like some booklets, we'd really appreciate a small donation to help us cover costs, please use the donation button below. Even just a couple of £s/$s/euros to cover postage would help! :0)
Ideas of places to scatter to get you started; inside books or other poetry mags in libraries, bookshops and newsagents etc, tucked inside menu holders in restaurants, left on top of hand dryers in bathrooms, left behind curtains and in drawers in hotel rooms, hung over the edges of leaflet holders in theatres, museums, galleries, tourist info offices, hospitals, wherever!
Be creative, let us know of any clever or interesting places that you leave them and send us photos. We'll start a gallery of the unusual ones :0)
Don't be too bizarre about where you leave them though as we want people to actually find them!!! :0)
So they don't completely disappear into the ether and to make it all a little more interactive, on the inside cover, we ask people who find them to let us know where and when they found a booklet.
Along with any other comments they make, we put this info onto a poetry map on our web site, here http://www.liverpoolpoet.talktalk.net/poetryfound.html
Donations are very welcome and if you can help then please get in touch as we are a non-profit, non-funded project and need your support! Just use the donation button.
Read about us in the Summer 2007 issue of ABCtales mag...
Requests for future submissions will be announced on Poetry Found's web site and myspace as and when.
Poets, thank you for your continued interest and support.
hi i've been busy distributing, surrepticiously, the booklets, supply is nearly exhausted, except for the one that i keep in my car to read on the ferry, it was such fun, i felt like a secret agent from muse on a drop, hope some of the 5th columnists have made contast, verdigris
I got your package--hooray. The books look great. "Expiration Dates" really made me smile. I will be tucking these into mailings and letters as well as leaving them around the great big dirty town of Philadelphia. I'll let you know where exactly when I do, if you like. Glad we've met ... Katie
I love the idea of these books. It's kind of like the "wind horses" that poets used to throw of of mountains in the East (OK, I can't remember where in the East !) </;-)
This is a wonderful idea. If you ever wanted your poems finding their way around the east coast of the u.s., mail some booklets to me. (I've done such things before and like to leave them along with a tip at restaurants.) ... Katie
scattering them around Beeston in Nottingham, will let you know how the library received them soon. good to see 'Poetry Found' is making friends! regards ani
Hi Poetry Found, thanks for befriending Hecale - sounds a fabulous project you're undertaking. If you'd like a link somewhere in our resource listings, drop by and leave a note. All the best.
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What a wonderful idea! How do you select the poets you include in the booklets? We would be interested in sending you some poems if you are accepting submissions.
