Miguel Cullen is a British

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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.

Poetry

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

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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

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. A. N. Wilson is a fan of his work. His debut collection, ''Wave Caps'' (2014) was described in ''

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'' as "arresting, streetsmart ventriloquism". Cullen worked with directors Ivar Wigan and Agustina Comedi to makes films which perform on

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and Flaunt. He has performed poetry on BBC Radio London

Journalism

Cullen was arts editor for ''

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''. writing art reviews over an extended period. He has also published music and art journalism in VICE UK, ''

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'', ''

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'', and long features on

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the

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, and the history of Black cinema in the UK for ''Clash''. Recently he has written for WritersMosaic including a comic feature about Jafaican dialect and a feature about his cannabis-induced psychosis. Cullen has also written some of few accounts of encounters with the American poet

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