Wellington Group

The Wellington Group or Wellington School was a group of New Zealand poets who worked and lived in and around Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, in the 1950s and 1960s.

History
The movement started with Louis Johnson, who started up the Poetry Yearbook which ran from 1951-1964. 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 from 1954-1960.

Members

 * James K. Baxter
 * Alistair Campbell
 * Louis Johnson