Patrick Cullinan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPatrick Cullinan
South African poet
Date of Birth: 25-May-1933
Place of Birth: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Date of Death: 14-Apr-2011
Profession: poet
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Patrick Cullinan
- Patrick Roland Cullinan (21 May 1932 – 14 April 2011) was a South African poet and biographer. He was born in Pretoria into a significant diamond-mining family (his grandfather, Sir Thomas Cullinan, a diamond mine owner, gave his name to the Cullinan Diamond) and Patrick attended Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford University in England (where he read Italian and Russian).
- After his studies, he returned to South Africa, where he worked as a sawmill owner and farmer in the Eastern Transvaal.
- With Lionel Abrahams, he founded the Bateleur Press in 1974, and the literary journal The Bloody Horse: Writings and the Arts in 1980.
- Through the journal (the title taken from a poem by Roy Campbell) Cullinan sought to re-establish the standing of poetry in South Africa.
- Influences included John Betjeman, W.
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- Yeats, Eugenio Montale, Rimbaud, and Dante
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