In Conversation with Christopher Southgate

Name: In Conversation with Christopher Southgate
Start: 2025-10-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: 1 The Cloisters, EX1 1HS Exeter, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

1 The Cloisters, EX1 1HS Exeter, United Kingdom | Exeter, EN

Join us for a conversation with Christopher Southgate in Exeter Cathedral's Chapter House covering poetry of grief, joy, and the spiritual search.
As well as a poet, Christopher Southgate has been a research biochemist, a house-husband, a bookseller and a lay chaplain. He is now Professor of Christian Theodicy at the University of Exeter. His two newest poetry collections are Losing Ithaca (Shoestring) and Rain falling by the River (Canterbury Press). Chris will reflect on what recent grief has taught him, his enthusiasm for Greta Thunberg and Garry Sobers, and his poetic meditations on Biblical scenes and characters.
Join us for a fascinating conversation, followed by a short service of compline.
This is a free event; no booking is required.