The movement started with
Louis Johnson, who started up the
Poetry Yearbook which ran from 1951 to 1964. In part, it was a reaction to
Allen Curnow's dictum of localism in NZ poetry, emphasising universalism, but both the Wellington Group and Curnow liked to use some degree of
Māori symbolism. Another significant publication was
Numbers, which ran 1954–1960. ==Members==