The making of God
“I don’t believe in God as character,” says poet Pádraig Ó Tuama, “but I do believe in God as plot.”
Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama (Photo by David Pugh)
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and host of the podcast Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios. In 2022 he published both the chapbook Feed the Beast and the anthology Poetry Unbound. This interview took place at Oklahoma City University, where both interviewers teach.
Lisa M. Wolfe: In preparation for this interview, I read your 2015 collection In the Shelter. It felt very comforting and pastoral, kind of devotional. There’s even a litany in it. After finishing that, I pulled Feed the Beast from the library shelf. I sat down and read the whole thing at once. It was so engrossing and compelling, even searing. But it is completely different from In the Shelter! What happened between those two works?
