Pierre Reverdy founded the monthly literary review, Nord-Sud, which drew together the first cubists and surrealists. 

When the collection of his early poems, Les Epaves du ciel, appeared in 1924, Reverdy achieved greater recognition as a poet. In 1926, Reverdy became a Catholic and retired to a life of ascetic seclusion near the Benedictine monastery at Solesmes. He stayed there for the remainder of his life.