page 1 of 2: 1930-1960 Abbreviations Remy: Remy, Michel (ed.), Au Treizième Coup de Minuit; Anthologie du Surrealisme en Angleterre, Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2008 – all texts in French translation - and At the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight; Surrealist Poetry in Britain, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2013. I Saw Water: Shillitoe, Richard and Morrisson, Mark (eds.): I Saw Water and Other Selected Writings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. Medea’s Charms: Shillitoe, Richard, (ed.): Medea’s Charms. The selected shorter writings of Ithell Colquhoun. London Peter Owen, 2019. Sarré: Sarré,Marie (ed), Les Magiciennes. Surréalisme et alchimie au féminin, Paris, Centre Pompidou 2024, Note: works unpublished during the author’s lifetime and first published posthumously are not included in this listing. Posthumous republication of works published during the authors’ lifetime are included. 1930 ‘The Prose of Alchemy’, The Quest, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 294-303. An essay on the use of imagery in alchemical writings. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 209-18. 1939 ‘The Double Village’, London Bulletin, No. 7, p. 23. An extract from the then unpublished novel Goose of Hermogenes. Reprinted: Les Enfants d’Alice: la Peinture Surréaliste Anglaise 1939-1960, [exhibition catalogue], Paris: Galerie 1900-2000, 1982, p. 38, in French translation; Surrealism in England 1936 and after, [exhibition catalogue], Canterbury: The Herbert Read Gallery, 1986, pp. 67-8; Remy, 2008. p. 103; Remy, 2013, p. 66. [Untitled autobiographical statement]. London Bulletin, double issue, Nos. 8-9, p. 10. Includes a b/w photograph of the artist. ‘The Moths’, London Bulletin, No. 10, p. 11. A brief poetic text. Reprinted: British Surrealism 50 years on, [exhibition catalogue], London: Mayor Gallery, 1988, p. 62; Remy,2008, pp. 99-100; and Remy, 2013, p. 63. ‘What do I need to paint a picture?’, London Bulletin, No. 17, p. 13. A statement by Colquhoun on her working methods, with four photographs of the artist. Reprinted, without the photographs, in Rosemont, Penelope, (ed.), Surrealist Women: an International Anthology, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, p.114. ‘The Volcano’, London Bulletin, No. 17, pp. 15-16. An extract from Goose of Hermogenes. Reprinted: Surrealism in England 1936 and after, [exhibition catalogue], Canterbury: The Herbert Read Gallery, 1986, pp. 67-8; Remy, 2008. pp. 103-4; Remy, 2013, p. 64. ‘The Echoing Bruise’, London Bulletin, No. 17, pp. 17-18. An extract from Goose of Hermogenes. Reprinted: TR, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 96; Remy, 2008, pp. 104-6; Remy, 2013, p.65. 1941 ‘Uxor Spiritualis’, Life and Letters Today, Vol. 31, No. 52, pp. 207-10. A short story. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 122-3. 1942 ‘Nature Note’, in Bayliss, John; Moore, Nicholas and Newton, Douglas (eds), The Fortune Anthology; Stories, Criticism and Poems, London: The Fortune Press, p. 29. A prose poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 117. 1943 ‘Triad’, Poetry Quarterly, No. 5, p. 31. A prose poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 139. ‘Everything found on Land is found in the Sea’, in Comfort, Alex and Bayliss John (eds.), New Road 1943, Billericay, Essex: The Grey Walls Press, 1943, pp. 196-7. An extract from Goose of Hermogenes. Reprinted: TRANSFORMAcTION, 1971, No. 4, pp. 16-18, as ‘Sublimation’; Surrealism in England 1936 and after, [exhibition catalogue], Canterbury: The Herbert Read Gallery, 1986, pp. 67-8; Angels of Anarchy and Machines for Making Clouds: Surrealism in Britain in the Thirties, [exhibition catalogue], Leeds: City Art Gallery, 1986, pp. 82-3; Rosemont, Penelope, (ed.), Surrealist Women: an International Anthology, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pp. 168-70; Remy, 2008, pp. 100-1; Remy, 2013, p. 67-8; Medea’s Charms, pp. 118-21. ‘The Water-stone of the Wise’, in New Road 1943, Comfort, Alex and Bayliss, John, (eds.), Billericay, Essex: The Grey Walls Press, pp. 198-9. A poetic statement on spiritual alchemy. Reprinted: Surrealism in England 1936 and after, [exhibition catalogue], Canterbury: The Herbert Read Gallery, pp. 67-8; Rosemont, Penelope, (ed.), Surrealist Women: an International Anthology, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pp. 170-1; Medea’s Charms, pp. 219-20.. ‘Public Art’, Tribune, November 12, p. 18. An essay on the importance of art in public buildings. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 241-4. 1944 ‘Aged Six’, View, Series 4, No. 2, p. 52. A poem, written when Colquhoun was six years old. ‘Les Grandes Transparentes’, The Bell, Vol 8, No. 6, p. 537. A poem. Reprinted: I Saw Water, p. 174.; Medea’s Charms, pp. 46-7. Extract from Au Château d’Argol by Julien Gracq, in Comfort, Alex and Bayliss, John (eds.), New Road 1944, Billericay, Essex: The Grey Walls Press, pp. 189-98. Colquhoun’s translation from the French of chapter one of the novel. ‘Public Art’, World Digest, pp. 65-6. A condensed version of the article of the same name from the previous year. ‘Sinai of Monasteries’ writing as Torfrida Blake, People and Freedom, May, unpaginated. The destruction of the Monastery at Monte Casino during WWII. A letter in a subsequent issue rebuts Colquhoun’s arguments. ‘Possibilities for True Fresco’, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, March 17, pp. 283-4. With three drawings by the artist. An article concerning the potential of fresco technique in contemporary domestic settings. 1945 ‘True Fresco’, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, January 19, p. 59. The first in a series of four articles on the techniques of traditional fresco painting. ‘True Fresco - 2’, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, February 9, p. 154 ‘True Fresco - 3’, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, February 16, p. 186 ‘Preparation of Gesso Panels for Decorative Painting’, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, September 7, p. 986, 988, and 990. With six line-drawings by the author. 1946 ‘Alienation of Language’ View, January 1946, p. 9-10. Letters of a Corsican boy to his English sweetheart. Replies to a questionnaire, Le Savoir Vivre. Brussels: Le Miroir Infidèle. Reprinted: Rosemont, Penelope, (ed.), Surrealist Women: an International Anthology, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, p. 214. ‘Echoes of Voodoo’, Jazz Forum, No. 1, p. 21. An extract from the then unpublished novel, Goose of Hermogenes. Translations of four French poems, ‘Sunflower’ by André Breton, ‘Tom-Tom II’ by Aimé Césaire, ‘There are no Pointless Jests’ by Georges Henein and ‘To Live Among Such Men’ by René Char, in Transformation 4, Schimanski, Stefan and Treece, Henry, (eds.), London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd, pp. 97-100, 109. 1947 ‘Languor’, ‘Wreathed in Storm-Clouds’ and ‘The Old-Clothes Woman’, in Mackworth, Cecily, A Mirror for French Poetry, London: Routledge, pp. 64-67. Translations from the French of three poems by Stéphane Mallarmé. 1948 ‘The Myth of Santa Warna’, The Glass No. 1, pp. 21-2. A prose poem, written to accompany a series of watercolour paintings. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 52-4. ‘Mes Bouquins Refermes sur le Nom de Paphos’ and ‘Anguish’, Adam: International Review, Vol. 16, No. 189, p. 17. Translations from the French of two poems by Stéphane Mallarmé, the first of which retains the French title. 1949 ‘The Mantic Stain’, Enquiry, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 15-21. An essay concerning surrealist automatic techniques, illustrated with examples from her own practice. Reprinted, without the illustrations, in Surrealist Women: an International Anthology, Rosemont, Penelope, (ed.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pp. 220-4. ‘Siesta of a Faun’, The Poetry Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 240-3. Colquhoun’s translation from the French of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. 1951 ‘Children of the Mantic Stain’, Athene, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 29-34. An extended version of the earlier essay (1949), with different illustrations. Reprinted, text only, in The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, [exhibition catalogue], St Ives: Tate St. Ives, 2009, pp. 99-105.; Medea’s Charms, pp. 245-54. ‘An Aspect of Popular Taste’, Athene, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 51. An essay on decoration and folk-art. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 265-7. ‘Little Poems on Hidden Themes’ The Glass, No. 7, pp. 6-7, Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 56-7. Goose of Hermogenes, an extract. The Glass, No. 7, 15-19. ‘Romantic Cyprus 4th edition by Kevork K. Keshishian’, The Cyprus Review, October 1951 Vol 7, No. 10, p. 17. A review of the guidebook. 1953 ‘The Brand Caliburn’, ‘Magical Sequence’, ‘The Wax Image’, ‘Divination’ and ‘Amulet’ [Five poems]; ‘Roads of the Moon’, [A short story] and translations of two poems ‘Little Song I’, ‘Little Song II’, and ‘The Flowers’ from the French of Stéphane Mallarmé, in Springtime; an Anthology of Young Poets and Writers edited by Frazer, George. S. and Fletcher, Iain, (eds.), London: Peter Owen, pp. 29-32, 95-9, 107-9. ‘Roads of the Moon’ Reprinted: Sarré, in French translation, pp. 23-7; Medea’s Charms, pp. 172-5. “Magical Sequence” reprinted in Medea’s Charms, pp. 58-9; Sarré, in French translation, pp. 19-20. ‘The Night Side of Nature’, The Glass, No. 8, pp. 8-12 An article on animism. Reprinted: I Saw Water, pp. 167-71; Medea’s Charms, pp. 223-8. ‘Diagrams of Love‘, The Glass, No. 8, pp. 20-1. A poetic sequence. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp 60-1; Hale, A. Sex Magic, 2024, London, Tate Publishing, pp. 70-1; Sarré, in French translation, pp.21-2. ‘Little Poems on the Theme of the Way’, The Glass, No. 9, pp. 18. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 66. Responses to a questionnaire, published in a previous issue, concerning myth, symbol and archetype. The Glass, No. 9, pp. 24-5. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 270-1. 1954 ‘The Head that is Not’, ‘The Visit’ and ‘Rune’, The Glass, No. 10, p. 8. Three poems. ‘The Head that is Not’ and ‘Rune’ Reprinted: Medea’s Charms p. 69 Translations of the short texts ‘An Island Field’, by Edouard Glissant and ‘The Conflagration’ by Romain Weingarten, and a poem ‘Third Vision in the Room’ also by Romain Weingarten, The Glass, No. 11, pp. 15-7, 33-5. ‘Warning’ and ‘Epitaph’, Grub Street, No. 3, p. 10. Two poems. Both poems Reprinted: Medea’s Charm’s p. 67. ‘Two Poems’, Grub Street, No. 4, p. 10. The poems are not titled. The second is a free translation of a traditional Cornish folksong. The first poem Reprinted: Medea’s Charms p. 70. ‘Alchemical Satire’, ‘Lost Horus’, ‘Sent Away’. Three poems. The London Broadsheet, No. 1, pp. 2-3. ‘Alchemical Satire’ and ‘Sent Away’ Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 68 ‘Heaven and Earth’, The London Broadsheet, No. 1, p. 4. An essay on G.B. Gardner and Witchcraft. 1955 ‘My Sister and I’, The London Broadsheet, No. 2, p. 1. A poem. ‘Divination up-to-date’, The London Broadsheet, No. 2, p. 4. An essay on the predictive power of dreams. Reprinted: I Saw Water, pp. 172-3; Medea’s Charms, pp. 272-3. ‘Portrait of a Magician: Austin Osman Spar’, The London Broadsheet, No. 3, p. 4. An essay. Reprinted: The Borough Satyr. The Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare [exhibition catalogue], London: Fulgur. ‘The Lamia’, The London Broadsheet, No. 3, p. 1. A poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 71. ‘The Dying-Kick of the Dying-God’, The London Broadsheet, No. 4, p. 6. An essay on Thelemic aeonics. ‘Stretch Out’, The London Broadsheet, No. 4, [p. 2]. A poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 70. ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’, The London Broadsheet, No. 5, p. 4. An essay on interplanetary visitors. ‘I See’, The London Broadsheet, No. 5, p. 3. A poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p.70. ‘The Goat without Horns’, Other Voices, No. 1, p. 1. A short story concerning cannibalism among students. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 178. ‘The Crying of the Wind: Ireland.’ London: Peter Owen, 1955. A topographical book describing Colquhoun’s travels in Ireland, and with twenty-two drawings and dust jacket illustration by the author. Reprinted: 2017 with an introduction by Stewart Lee and in 2025 by Pushkin Press. ‘The Symbol of the Seven Sisters’ and ‘Vanishing Islands of the West’, The Irish Digest, November, pp. 13-15. Two brief extracts from ‘The Crying of the Wind: Ireland’. 1957 ‘The Living Stones: Cornwall.’ London: Peter Owen, 1957. A topographical book describing the author’s experiences of living in Cornwall, its scenery and folklore and with twenty-one line drawings and dust jacket design by the author. Reprinted in 2017 with an introduction by Stewart Lee. Reprinted in 2025 by Pushkin Press with an introduction by Edward Parnell. An excerpt from chapter six republished in Sarré in French translation, pp. 28-37. ‘Preface’, in English Masterpieces 700-1800, Herrington, Huntley W. (ed.), London: Peter Owen, pp. vii-viii. ‘A New Book on Ancient Magic’, Prediction, Vol. 23, December, pp. 51-2. A review of The Secret Lore of Magic by Idries Shah. 1958 ‘Corolla’s Pinions’ and ‘Serenade of Zicava’ [Two extracts from Goose of Hermogenes]; ‘Epithalamium’, ‘Elegy on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’ and ‘Little Poems from Cyprus’ [three poems] and translations of the poems ‘Lament of the Look-Out Man on a Polar Midnight’ by Jules Laforgue, ‘The Cobbler’ by Stéphane Mallarmé, and ‘Song of the Highest Tower’ by Arthur Rimbaud, in Springtime Two; an Anthology of Current Trends in Literature, Owen, Peter and Owen, Wendy,(eds), London: Peter Owen, pp. 36-50. ‘Epithalamium’ Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 71; Hale, A. Sex Magic, 2024 London, Tate Publishing, p. 60. ‘Sarn Elen’, The Aylesford Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 p. 94. A poem. ‘The Crown and the Kingdom: the Qabalah’, Prediction, Vol. 24, May, pp. 39-41. The first of a four part series ‘designed for the student who wishes to know more of the roots of occult tradition.’ ‘The Crown and the Kingdom: the Ten Sephiroth’, Prediction, Vol. 24, June, pp. 36-7. ‘The Crown and the Kingdom: the Twenty-two Paths’, Prediction, Vol. 24, July, pp. 39-41. ‘The Crown and the Kingdom: the 400 Desirable Worlds’, Prediction, Vol. 24, August, pp. 37-40. “The Occult Path. As Revealed by Yeat's Automatic Writing in his book ‘a Vision’". Prediction Annual, pp. 61-4.