Christopher Southgate

I was trained as a biochemist and have since been a bookseller, a house-husband, and a chaplain in a university and a hospital. Of my eight collections of poetry, A Love and its Sounding is the most unusual - it is a long biographical poem about the life and faith of T.S. Eliot. My Easing the Gravity Field (Shoestring 2006) draws on my scientific interests. The last two collections are Chasing the Raven (Shoestring, 2016) and Rain Falling by the River (Canterbury, 2017).

My book The Groaning of Creation is about the suffering of non-human creatures in evolution. How could a loving God create nature red in tooth and claw? It took me ten years to write.

I'm also the editor of God, Humanity and the Cosmos, a standard textbook on science and religion. The third edition was published in the autumn of 2011.

Since The Groaning of Creation I have been thinking about the theme of glory. I gave the 2014 Sarum Lectures on this, and my new book Theology in a Suffering World: Glory and Longing is due from Cambridge University Press in September 2018.

I am happy to be contacted about my work on c.c.b.southgate@ex.ac.uk.