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Miguel Cullen
Occupation(s)Poet, journalist
RelativesMichael Berry, Baron Hartwell (grandfather)
William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (great-grandfather)
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (great-grandfather)
Francisco Hermógenes Ramos Mejía (great-great-great-great grandfather)
Francisco Bernabé Madero (great-great-great grandfather)

Miguel Cullen is a British poet and journalist who lives in London.

Background

Cullen was born into a mixed Argentinean-British household in World’s End, Chelsea in London in 1982. After boarding school, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. At Bristol University, he performed as to Jungle emcee on student radio,[1] and become friends with Reprazent emcee MC Tali, as well as future Sunday Assembly leader Sanderson Jones. Other friends include Argentine painter Lobo Velar and writer Camilla Grudova.

Poetry

Cullen's poetry has been described as “unlike any poetry I’ve ever encountered. It ranges across various cultures, especially popular culture and dwells somewhere between the expressionistic and surreal, subversive, and possessed of unparalleled energy” [2] by August Kleinzahler. Ian Thomson (writer) described it having “allusions from Greek mythology (colliding) with sound system culture (and) pavement pounding street demotic", while Vice (magazine)[3] described it as “full of the lawless energy of late nights and early mornings, hop-scotching London’s jungle raves”. His debut collection, Wave Caps [4][5][6][7] was a The Times Literary Supplement ‘Book of the Year’ in 2014.[8] AN Wilson blurbed his second, Paranoid Narcissism! which was an Evening Standard Book of the Year 2017 [9], about which SJ Fowler wrote: “Lyrical, voluminously expressive, beautiful in their knotted, winding intensity – Miguel Cullen's poems are intricate, funny for everyone but you, unpleasantly bright and brilliant.” [10]

Cullen worked with videographers Ivar Wigan, Agustina Comedi, (a protege of Nan Goldin) and Fede Velar to place his collaborative video-poetry work in NOWNESS,[11] Purple Magazine [12]and FLAUNT. [13]

Journalism

Cullen is arts editor for The Catholic Herald.[14] He has also published music and art journalism in Vice (magazine),[15] Wonderland magazine, The Independent,[16] The Daily Telegraph,[17][18] and The Quietus,;[19] including four cover features and in-depth documentary articles on Dub music, the Bristol underground scene, and the history of Black cinema in the UK for Clash (magazine),[20][21][22][23]

Cullen has also written one of the only formal literary interviews with American Modernist poet Frederick Seidel[24]

References

  1. ^ Sound System, Tape from. "MC Lito at Black Cat Sound System". YouTube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ^ "About — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  3. ^ "London's Junglist Bard Proves Poetry's for the People". Vice.com. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Wave Caps by Miguel Cullen". Literateur.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Wave Caps: Former hack turns poet". Eastendreview.co.uk. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Making Waves » Erotic Review". Eroticreviewmagazine.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Wave Caps". Caughtbytheriver.net. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  8. ^ [1] [dead link]
  9. ^ "The best books of 2017". Evening Standard. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  10. ^ "Press — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  11. ^ "Miguel Cullen: MARADONA". www.nowness.com. 2022-11. Retrieved 2023-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Purple TV PRESENTS: "Maradona & the Pope," a visual poem by Miguel Cullen and Ivar Wigan - purple TELEVISION". Purple (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  13. ^ "DAVID". www.flaunt.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  14. ^ "Author: Miguel Cullen - CatholicHerald.co.uk". CatholicHerald.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  15. ^ "The Wu-Tang Clan Talk Obama, Gay Rap and ODB". Vice.com. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  16. ^ "Miguel Cullen | Independent Blogs". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  17. ^ Cullen, Miguel (26 August 2010). "Don Letts interview". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  18. ^ Cullen, Miguel (23 April 2010). "Matthew Herbert interview". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  19. ^ Cullen, Miguel. "Interview with Jamaica-photographer Ivar Wigan". www.thequietus.com. The Quietus. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  20. ^ "MIGUEL CULLEN ON THE BIRTH OF BLACK CINEMA IN THE UK – CLASH MAGAZINE". Miguelcullen4.wordpress.com. 29 July 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  21. ^ "Dread Beat And Blood - The DNA of Dub". Clashmusic.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  22. ^ "Features". Clashmusic.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  23. ^ "HACKNEY SOLDIERS" (PDF). Miguelcullen4.wordpress.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  24. ^ Editora, Mardulce. "Interview with Frederick Seidel". www.mardulceeditora.com.ar. Mardulce Editora. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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