Miguel Cullen is a British

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and

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who lives in

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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 , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

, he performed as to

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emcee on student radio, and become friends with

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emcee

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, as well as future

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leader Sanderson Jones. Other friends include Argentine painte
Lobo Velar
and writer

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Poetry

Cullen's poetry has been described as 'stoner poetry', in an in-depth interview in Writers Mosaic “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” by

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described it having “allusions from Greek mythology (colliding) with sound system culture (and) pavement pounding street demotic", while

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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'' was a

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Book of the Year in 2014.

AN Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950)"A. N. Wilson"
''Encyclopædia Britannica''.

blurbed his second, ''Paranoid Narcissism!'' which was an Evening Standard Book of the Year 2017, 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.” Cullen worked with videographer
Ivar Wigan
Agustina Comedi, (a protege of Nan Goldin) and Fede Velar to place his collaborative video-poetry work in

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, Purple Magazine and Flaunt.

Journalism

Cullen was arts editor for The Catholic Herald. for seven years. He has also published music and art journalism in

, Wonderland magazine,

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, and The Quietus,; including long features on

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, the

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, and the history of Black cinema in the UK for

Clash (magazine) ''Clash'' is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in ...

, Recently he has written fo
Writers Mosaic
about the

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dialect, 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’. Cullen has also written one of few accounts of a meeting with the poet

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References

External links

journalisted.com profile

''Vice'' interview
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