Anthony Cuthbertson

Do Not Look at the Sun is an offbeat literary magazine based in Paris. It is published twice a year in print (spring & autumn), as well as weekly online. The idea behind Do Not Look at the Sun is 'Found Poetry/ Free Prose'. Set up in 2009 by two friends with time on their hands and an old printer they'd plundered from work, the first issue was made and left sitting on stools and seat cushions in cafés and bars around Paris for anyone to pick up. It has since been published on postcards and broadsides, as well as street walls, trees, and toilet stalls. Printed issues can be found in certain obliging bookshops and online. It has since spread to towns and cities throughout the UK and US.