Speaker Notes
Graeme Watson is an Anglican priest who has worked in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Tanzania, Taunton and Truro in pastoral posts and in training men and women for ordained and lay ministries. A spiritual director, he leads poetry workshops, quiet days and retreats, and for the last 10 years he has been an honorary assistant priest on the staff of St Mary Stoke Newington, London. There he shares in the leadership of an ecumenical meditation group associated with WCCM.. He has published a book about The Cloud of Unknowing entitled “Strike the Cloud” (SPCK London 2011), and is now writing a book on a contemplative approach to The Song of Songs to be published in 2013, He has also written on George Herbert’s mysticism for SPCK Theology, and on the apophatic tradition in the Anglican Church for The Way.