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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

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Cullen was born into a mixed Argentinean-British household in World’s End, Chelsea in London in 1982.

Poetry

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Cullen's poetry has been described as "stoner poetry", and "baffling, brilliant, playful, and fraught with a sense of language potential and spin" by Ian Thomson, a "strange and wonderful garden of beautifully gnarled visions" (Camilla Grudova) (In Dreams of Diminished Responsibility, 2025)

Reviewing In Dreams of Diminished Responsibility in the Morning Star, Leo Boix wrote "I’m fascinated by Cullen’s ability to transport me into strangely constructed places where I don’t quite know what will happen next or who I will bump into".

Hologram (2022) received compliments from August Kleinzahler.[1] A. N. Wilson is a fan of his work.[2] His debut collection, Wave Caps (2014) [3][4][5][6] was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "arresting, streetsmart ventriloquism". [7]

Cullen worked with directors Ivar Wigan and Agustina Comedi to makes films which perform on Purple, [8] Nowness [9]and Flaunt.[10] He has performed poetry on BBC Radio London [11] [1].

Journalism

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Cullen was arts editor for The Catholic Herald.[12] writing art reviews over an extended period. [13] He has also published music and art journalism in VICE UK,[14] The Independent,[15] The Daily Telegraph,[16][17] and long features on Dub music [18] the Bristol underground scene, [19]and the history of Black cinema in the UK [20] for Clash. Recently he has written for WritersMosaic[21] including a comic feature about Jafaican dialect [22] and a feature about his cannabis-induced psychosis.[23]

Cullen has also written some of few accounts of encounters with the American poet Frederick Seidel[24][25][26][27]

References

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  1. ^ "Hologram by Miguel Cullen". The Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  2. ^ "The best books of 2017". The Standard. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  3. ^ "Wave Caps by Miguel Cullen". Literateur.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Wave Caps: Former hack turns poet". Eastendreview.co.uk. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Making Waves » Erotic Review". Eroticreviewmagazine.com. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Wave Caps". Caughtbytheriver.net. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Miguel Cullen". WritersMosaic Magazine. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  8. ^ "Purple TV PRESENTS: "Maradona & the Pope," a visual poem by Miguel Cullen and Ivar Wigan - purple TELEVISION". Purple (in French). Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  9. ^ Cullen, Cullen (November 25, 2022). "Miguel Cullen: MARADONA". Nowness. p. 1.
  10. ^ "DAVID". www.flaunt.com. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  11. ^ "BBC Radio London - Jumoké Fashola, 21/03/2025". BBC. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  12. ^ "Author: Miguel Cullen - CatholicHerald.co.uk". CatholicHerald.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  13. ^ "The Catholic Herald — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  14. ^ "The Wu-Tang Clan Talk Obama, Gay Rap and ODB". Vice.com. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  15. ^ "Miguel Cullen | Independent Blogs". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  16. ^ Cullen, Miguel (26 August 2010). "Don Letts interview". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  17. ^ Cullen, Miguel (23 April 2010). "Matthew Herbert interview". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  18. ^ "CLASH NOV 2011 DREAD BEAT AND DUB — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  19. ^ "CLASH - Bristol Sound 2014 — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  20. ^ "CLASH: Black British Film — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  21. ^ "WritersMosaic Magazine | Uncommonly Brilliant New Writing". WritersMosaic Magazine. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  22. ^ Grant, Colin (2022-04-06). "White Man in the Hammersmith Palais: an Aural History of Jafaican". WritersMosaic Magazine. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  23. ^ Cullen, Miguel (12 October 2023). "When Mi Was A Youth I Used To Run Up And Down Playing Cowboy: A Story Of Cannabis-Induced Psychosis" (PDF). Writers Mosaic.
  24. ^ Editora, Mardulce. "Interview with Frederick Seidel". www.mardulceeditora.com.ar. Mardulce Editora. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  25. ^ "Lunch with Frederick Seidel at Cafe Lux". Wild Court. 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  26. ^ "Frederick Seidel - Magma — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  27. ^ Cullen, Miguel (April 2023). "Miguel Cullen My Favourite Book" (PDF). Writers Mosaic. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
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  1. ^ "Miguel Cullen". WritersMosaic Magazine. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  2. ^ Mills, Jack (2014-08-22). "London's Junglist Bard Proves Poetry's for the People". VICE. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
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