sentences:  Influences included John Betjeman, W. B. Yeats, Eugenio Montale, Rimbaud, and Dante
  Cullinan's poetry collections include "The Horizon Forty Miles Away" (1973), "Today Is Not Different" (1978), "The White Hail in the Orchard" (1984) and "Selected Poems 1961 - 1991" (1992).The volume "The White Hail in the Orchard" contains what Cullinan called 'versions' by which he meant loose translations from the Italian poetry of Eugenio Montale.Cullinan's poetry, often (in his earlier works) permeated by the Transvaal landscape, is most often concerned with the personal rather than the political; with emotional and metaphysical themes, such as his poem "My Predawn Owl".