A humane and spellbinding collection.
Eric Page, Gscene

In Spacecraft, McCullough unites form and content in a way that exhibits a versatility of tone and imaginative power to great effect ... from the lyrical and the learned, to the colloquial and downright funny.
Maria Taylor, Under the Radar

Spacecraft [is] a cabinet of beautifully shaped curiosities. Combining details of quasi-scientific observation with a fabulist’s openness to the queerness of unreason, [McCullough] is somehow both shrewdly sceptical and wide-eyed with wonder at once.
Gregory Woods, The Guardian Best Books for Summer 2016

Driven by the perfect blend of curiosity and feeling, these are poems that pull off that rarest of balancing acts — with brio. John McCullough is a poet you need know. Alive to the pathos in a punctuation mark, walking through dark places with a spring in its step, Spacecraft is a marvellous book.
Sarah Howe

Out of body, in the open brackets of the air, John McCullough crafts a space unsettled and vast as any voice has dared, charged with remembering and the equally perilous task of forgetting.
D.A. Powell

A cumulative mastery of conception and phrase-building is at work - from an initial poem which subtly eroticises the exclamation mark to a spirited reanimation of the word 'flother'.
W.N. Herbert