Miguel Cullen
Miguel Cullen | |
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| Occupation(s) | Poet, journalist |
| Relatives | Michael 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[edit]
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[edit]
Cullen's poetry has been described as 'stoner poetry', in an in-depth interview in Writers Mosaic [2] “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” [3] 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)[4] 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 [5][6][7][8] was a The Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2014.[9] AN Wilson blurbed his second, Paranoid Narcissism! which was an Evening Standard Book of the Year 2017,[10] 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.” [11]
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,[12] Purple Magazine[13] and Flaunt.[14]
Journalism[edit]
Cullen was arts editor for The Catholic Herald.[15] for seven years. He has also published music and art journalism in Vice (magazine),[16] Wonderland magazine, The Independent,[17] The Daily Telegraph,[18][19] and The Quietus,;[20] including long features on Dub music, the Bristol underground scene, and the history of Black cinema in the UK for Clash (magazine),[21][22][23][24] Recently he has written for Writers Mosaic, about the Jafaican dialect,[25] and published a longread with them entitled ‘When mi was a youth I used to run up and down playing cowboy: A story of cannabis-induced psychosis’.[26]
Cullen has also written one of few accounts of a meeting with the poet Frederick Seidel[27][28][29][30]
References[edit]
- ^ Sound System, Tape from. "MC Lito at Black Cat Sound System". YouTube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ Gabriel, Gbadamosi (January 4, 2024). "Miguel Cullen in conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi" (PDF). Writers Mosaic.
- ^ "About — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "London's Junglist Bard Proves Poetry's for the People". Vice.com. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Wave Caps by Miguel Cullen". Literateur.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Wave Caps: Former hack turns poet". Eastendreview.co.uk. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Making Waves » Erotic Review". Eroticreviewmagazine.com. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Wave Caps". Caughtbytheriver.net. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "The best books of 2017". Evening Standard. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "Press — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "Miguel Cullen: Maradona". www.nowness.com. November 2022. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "Purple TV Presents: "Maradona & the Pope," a visual poem by Miguel Cullen and Ivar Wigan - purple Television". Purple (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "David". www.flaunt.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "Author: Miguel Cullen - CatholicHerald.co.uk". CatholicHerald.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "The Wu-Tang Clan Talk Obama, Gay Rap and ODB". Vice.com. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Miguel Cullen | Independent Blogs". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^ Cullen, Miguel (26 August 2010). "Don Letts interview". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Cullen, Miguel (23 April 2010). "Matthew Herbert interview". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Cullen, Miguel. "Interview with Jamaica-photographer Ivar Wigan". www.thequietus.com. The Quietus. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ "Miguel Cullent on the Birth of Black Cinema in the UK UK – Clash Magazine". Miguelcullen4.wordpress.com. 29 July 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Dread Beat And Blood - The DNA of Dub". Clashmusic.com. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Features". Clashmusic.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Hackney Soldiers" (PDF). Miguelcullen4.wordpress.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Grant, Colin (2022-04-06). "White Man in the Hammersmith Palais: an Aural History of Jafaican". Writers Mosaic. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Editora, Mardulce. "Interview with Frederick Seidel". www.mardulceeditora.com.ar. Mardulce Editora. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ "Lunch with Frederick Seidel at Cafe Lux". Wild Court. 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "Frederick Seidel - Magma — Miguel Cullen". miguelcullen.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ Cullen, Miguel (April 2023). "Miguel Cullen My Favourite Book" (PDF). Writers Mosaic. Retrieved 11 February 2024.