ABSTRACT
Alongside the 1936 exhibition, and in its wake, there were various tentative events. Roger Roughton devoted a double number of Contemporary Poetry and Prose to surrealist verse, containing some 40 works by British and French poets. 1 It opened with Paul Eluard's statement that 'the poet is he who inspires far more than he who is inspired', a phrase which gainsays Read's and Davies's insistence on the link between romanticism and surrealism. British surrealism was represented by Gascoyne, Kenneth Allott, Roger Roughton, and Humphrey Jennings's strange prose poems in collage form.
