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> It all started at the 1951 Festival of London, centred on the South Bank. > They were recent graduates of University College London, namely: Adrian Rowe-Evans, > John Boulton-Smith,and David Grant. They soon included Patrick Wymark, > who was a leading light of the College DramSoc. and later became a popular stage > and film character actor.John Smith brought along the violinist, Susan Baker. > The South Bank was so full of traders' barrows that even if they had enough original > poetry to stock one,they would never have been able to sell it. At length the Brewers'Federation invited them to perform (not recite) the poems at their pubs,associating > with the Shakespearian actors (the Taverners) who performed in upstairs rooms. The Brewers also provided a circuit of accessible London pubs, and posters to announce > their half-hour of performance poetry. > The were later joined by Alison Milne. Heather Black, Williams Gardner and Bealby-Wright. > They gave a lecture at the Octagon, Bath, explaining how they chose poems as "pubbable", > performed every other Friday night and, on the interim Friday, rehearsed and reviewed poems. > Not long afterwards they had performed in the USA at the Carnegie Hall, New York, and the Hollywood Bowl! poetry.