Emily Cullen
In Between Angels and Animals
ISBN: 9781851320790
Some critical responses to Emily Cullen’s work:
“With No Vague Utopia (Ainnir, 2003), Emily Cullen has produced a gem … Her themes surround recollections and ephemera, paeans to moments in time, vividly recalled. Her language is rich and vibrant, and her metre musical and textured. While each poem is a personal expression of one woman’s experience, Cullen’s ability to vividly describe and render these experiences ensures that her readers can recreate each moment with her”
– The Stinging Fly, 2004
“the style … is sturdily lyrical, the voice is confident and erudite, the vision insightful, the promise immense. This achievement – just that – notable”
– Black Mountain Review, 2003
“She is always that small distance apart. Noticing and then crafting those perceptions into shape, she is adept at formalizing … There are half-rhymes scattered niftily here and there, always the sign of a writer who loves what they are doing … Emily is an example of new European-wide influences bringing in richer texture and wider subject-matter into Irish writing as in ‘Two landmarks locked in dialogue’”
– The Lantern Review, 2004