Poetry of Grief, Joy and the Spiritual Search
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Christopher Southgate and Roger Wagner join us for an evening of poetry; reflecting on loss, excitement and biblical themes. |
Event details
Date: Thursday 21st May
Time: 5.30-6.30pm
Tickets: £6.50 per ticket
In order to make this event accessible to as many people who want to come, we have set the ticket price to only cover direct costs, thanks to Roger and Christopher's generosity in giving their time.
Venue: Wycliffe Hall, 52-54 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PW
Getting here: Wycliffe Hall is on major bus routes. Limited parking may be available on site (please contact us by email if you have any special access requirements) and pay-and-display on-street parking is available close by in Norham Gardens.
Photography and filming: This event will include photography and filming: please contact us directly if you have any questions about this: conferences@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk.
All are welcome: the event is open to the public but booking is required.
Wycliffe Hall has set itself the modest task of fostering a New Renaissance of Christian scholarship, leadership and culture. As both a Christian community and a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, we want to see transformational scholarship, leadership and culture, born out of Christian community, offering the truth, beauty and goodness of the gospel to the world.
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About our guests
As well as a poet, Christopher Southgate has been a research biochemist, a house-husband, a bookseller, a trainer of ordinands, 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.
Born in 1957, Roger Wagner read English at Oxford University before studying at the Royal Academy School of Art. He has been represented in London since 1985 by Anthony Mould Ltd exhibiting there many times. Other one man shows include retrospectives at the Ashmolean Museum in 1994 and 2010. He has produced several books of illustrated poems and translations: Fire Sonnets (1984), In a Strange Land (1988), A Silent Voice (1997), Out of the Whirlwind (1997). The Book of Praises – a translation of the psalms Book One(1994), Book Two (2008), Book Three (2013). His major work Menorah was acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 2010 and hangs in St Giles Church Oxford.
