Phoebe Wagner (she/her) is a poet, theatre-maker and facilitator. She published her debut pamphlet The Body You're In with Bad Betty Press in 2019. In 2021, she was nominated for the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and was commissioned for Helen Kirkum's London Fashion Week show. Her love of trainers inspired her to establish Crep Project, an arts collective exploring sneaker culture with young, working class people. She's part of the Poetry Translation Centre’s Polylingual Poets Please programme, a Barbican Young Poet and Visual Artist.
We Are All Lichen was supported by Grow Wild UK and Barbican Creative Learning, it was showcased in the London Grows Wild Together exhibition, 17th September – 1st October 2021. To read more about the exhibition and find out more about the artworks click here. The piece grew from a mind-map page which includes an audio-mix with music, a sonic exploration of the poem and the science behind its inspiration. Click the right tentacle below to view the mind map [or click here]. The title of the piece is inspired by the introductory quote from Queer Theory for Lichens by David Griffiths.
