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Barbican Young Poets: Vox

— ,Barbican Estate
A person sitting on a bench wearing headphones

© Betty Zapata

From the voices of the 2025 cohort, listen as sound and memory take shape, and echo through the concrete estate.

This audio trail lives between the breath and the concrete—tracing presence, memory, and sound throughout the Barbican Estate. Each stop offers a reflection, a response, a letter from the site itself; something to gently haunt the space, even after we’ve gone. To help you find your way, follow the illustrated map that will guide you around the building.

Scan the QR code and explore what it means to move through space in poetic voice. Come now, or later. This path waits. 

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Approximate runtime for the full trail: 50 mins, including time for moving between locations 

Download: Audio Trail Map

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The Trail

1. Jasmin Allenspach - Gentler Climes

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2. Pallas Yiu - at which point

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3. Nomakhwezi Becker - And the lake is a flirt

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4. Winter Chen - overture_ undertow

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5. Kitya Mark - Little Girl in the Barbican Kitchen Toilets

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6. Taylor Beidler - Lay Me Down In Cinema 1, 1969

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7. Angbeen Abbas - The Alice Walls at the Barbican (1982)

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8. Bluey Little - Totoro

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9. Soledad Santana - Ways of getting there

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10. Francis-Xavier Mukiibi - Two Sides of the Same City

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11. Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha - This Moment is Yours

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12. Daniel Grimston - There Is A Crack In Everything

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13. Katie O’Pray - Back on the estate

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Credits

Created & coordinated by Bluey Little & Nomakhwezi Becker 

Map artwork by Jessie Buers 

Graphic design by Bluey Little 

With thanks to Jacob Sam-La Rose, the Barbican Creative Collaborations team and their colleagues for their generous guidance and support.

Featuring poems from: 

  • Angbeen Abbas
  • Jasmin Allenspach
  • Nomakhwezi Becker
  • Taylor Beidler
  • Winter Chen
  • Daniel Grimston
  • Bluey Little
  • Kitya Mark
  • Francis-Xavier Mukiibi
  • Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha
  • Katie O’Pray
  • Soledad Santana
  • Pallas Yiu