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{{Short description|Artistic group}}
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{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}

In May 1936, the first issue of the periodical ''Contemporary Poetry and Prose'' was published, a month before the [[International Surrealist Exhibition]] was held in London.<ref>{{harvnb|Ray|1971|p=182-183}}. See also 'Archive' below.</ref> It was edited by nineteen-year old Roger Roughton, who was a member of what he called the 'loosely-constituted English Surrealist group'. It was followed in April 1938, by the first issue of the ''[[London Bulletin]]'' which was edited by [[E.L.T. Mesens]], who was one of the organizers of the exhibition.{{sfn|Ray|1971|p=218}}

==Members==
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* [[Eileen Agar]] (1899–1991){{sfn|Gaze|1997|p=170}}
* [[John Banting]] (1902-1972)
* [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]] (1889–1946)
* [[Emmy Bridgwater]] (1906–1999) 
* [[Ithell Colquhoun]] (1906–1988){{sfn|Atkin|2021|p=144–145}}
* [[David Gascoyne]] (1916–2001)
* [[Henry Moore]] (1898–1986)
* [[Herbert Read]] (1893–1968)
* [[Humphrey Jennings]] (1907–1950)
* [[Len Lye]] (1901–1980)
* [[Conroy Maddox]] (1912–2005)
* [[E.L.T. Mesens]] (1903–1971)
* [[Desmond Morris]] (1928)
* [[Roland Penrose]] (1900–1984) 
* [[Toni del Renzio]] (1915–2007)
* [[Edith Rimmington]] (1902–1986)
* [[Philip Sansom]] (1916-1999)
* [[Julian Trevelyan]] (1910–1988)
* [[John Tunnard]] (1900–1971)
* [[Simon Watson Taylor (surrealist)|Simon Watson Taylor]] (1923–2005)
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==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite dictionary |editor-first1=Will |editor-last1=Atkin |title= Historical Dictionary of Surrealism|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2021 |location= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9JJEAAAQBAJ |access-date=16 August 2025|isbn=978-1-5381-3343-9 }}
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Gaze |editor1-first=Delia |date=1997 |title=Dictionary of Women Artists |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=1-884964-21-4 |edition=Volume 1 Introductory Surveys Artists, A-I |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05_v5b_ZcAMC |access-date=16 August 2025}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ray |first1=Paul C. |title=The surrealist movement in England |date=1971 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=London |isbn=0-8014-0621-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/surrealistmoveme00rayp/page/n7/mode/2up |access-date=16 August 2025}}

==Archive==
*{{cite web |title=Roger Roughton |url=https://modmags.dmu.ac.uk/author_homea1bc.htm?sort=date |website=Modernist Magazines |publisher=Modernist Magazines Project |access-date=16 August 2025}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |last=Morris |first=Desmond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65-TEAAAQBAJ |title=The British Surrealists |date=2022-03-03 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=978-0-500-77728-2 |language=en |author-link=Desmond Morris}}

==External links==
*[https://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/misc/bridgwater.html Emmy Bridgwater]
*[https://www.connectworks.co.uk/printeurope/pejtbiog.html Julian Trevelyan]

==See also==
*[[Surrealism]]
*[[Birmingham Surrealists]]
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