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# LGBTQ+ voices amplified in a luminous poetry anthology by Barbican and flipped eye
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbtq-voices-amplified-in-a-luminous-poetry-anthology-by-barbican-and-flipped-eye/
- Published: 2022-05-23T13:51:56.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-23T13:51:56.000Z
- Description: Articulations for Keeping the Light In features the freshest voices in the contemporary poetry panorama, including the most exciting up-and-coming LGBTQ+ poets
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Books, News, Barbican, LGBT, LGBTQ, Poetry

**Articulations for Keeping the Light In**, an anthology of intimate and personal poetry written by 23 new and alumni members of its **Barbican Young Poets** programme, will be published by not-for-profit indie press **flipped eye publishing** on **July 14**.

*Articulations for Keeping the Light In* features the freshest voices in the contemporary poetry panorama, including the most exciting up-and-coming LGBTQ+ poets such as **Bella Cox, Simran Uppal, Abena Essah** and **Jinhao Xie**, hailing from across UK and internationally.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bella-cox-04_crbettylaurazapata.jpg)

Bella Cox – Barbican Young Poets 2022\. Cred: Betty Laura Zapata

Edited by award-winning poet **Rachel Long** and flipped eye editor **Jacob Sam-La Rose**, this multifaceted, prismatic collection features a blackout poem inspired by **Margaret Atwood**, recipe prayers, Ghana’s President **Nana Akufo-Addo**‘s stance on criminalising homosexual carnal acts and more.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/jinhao-xie-03_crbettylaurazapata.jpg)

Jinhao Xie – Barbican Young Poets 2022\. Pic cred: Betty Laura Zapata

**Jacob Sam-La Rose**, flipped eye senior editor and Barbican Young Poets artistic director and lead facilitator, said: *“Barbican Young Poets is a programme that values a wide-ranging body of poetics, celebrating poetry both on the page and in performance with the intention of sidestepping that age-old dichotomy.*

*“The connection between flipped eye and Barbican Young Poets feels like a perfect fit, bearing in mind the principles the programme upholds in nurturing its participants and the strong track record of developmental work flipped eye has. This is a milestone in the programme’s history.”*  

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/simran-uppal-01_crbettylaurazapata.jpg)

Simran Uppal – Barbican Young Poets 2022\. Pic cred: Betty Laura Zapata

Barbican Young Poets is a cohort of 16-30 year olds, both new members as well as poets who have been part of the diverse group for a number of years. Now in its twelfth year, the programme’s ambition is to create space for poets to connect and build a community, while supporting the development of their craft