Miguel Cullen

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

Background

Cullen is of mixed British and Argentine heritage. His grandfather was Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, ex-proprietor of The Daily Telegraph. His great-grandfathers were William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead.

Poetry

Cullen’s first collection of poetry, Wave Caps,^[1][2][3][4] was a The Times Literary Supplement ‘Book of the Year’ in 2014.^[5] The TLS praised its “streetsmart ventriloquism”, while an interview in Vice (magazine) ^[6] described it as “full of the lawless energy of late nights and early mornings, hop-scotching London’s jungle raves”.

Cullen is an avant-garde poet who uses frequent references to drum & bass and other urban music, using stream-of-consciousness style to weave together a fragile, interconnected world. The critic Ian Thomson (writer) compared him to Ezra Pound,^[7] citing his "allusions from Greek mythology (colliding) with sound system culture (and) pavement pounding street demotic".

The book was published under Odilo Press,^[8] for which Cullen collaborated with Alix Janta-Polczynski, publisher of the Artists' Book of ABCs.^[9]

Journalism

Cullen is arts editor for The Catholic Herald.^[10] He has also published music journalism in Vice (magazine),^[11] Wonderland magazine, The Independent,^[12] The Daily Telegraph,^[13][14] 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),^{[15][16][17][18]}

References

External links

• journalisted.com profile
• Vice interview