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The anniversary of a death
A poem from The Breathless Pause by Moyra Caldecott The anniversary of a death Trying to reconstruct a person on the anniversary of his death you must enter the labyrinth of memory with its twisting...
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Atlantis: The Crystal in the Bermuda Triangle
Atlantis: The Crystal in the Bermuda Triangle (from Crystal Legends by Moyra Caldecott, Chapter 26) It seems Edgar Cayce, the famous psychic and healer of Virginia Beach, Florida, predicted that...
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False Investment
(a poem Moyra wrote in 1946) The bank has gone insolvent and is closing now. The heavy brass doors shut. The people shout in vain against the pillrs of the vestibule. The gods are sending out the...
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Life Story by Moyra Caldecott
LIFE STORY Life is woven out of stories… warp and weft the threads interplay and interact. Mind stories lying in bed at night reshaping the day’s events… reading… listening… watching… Stories shape and...
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Revelation
The dangerous seeing eye is poised to strike at darkness. No mild recognition, but terror, as meaning leaps to meaning like lightning on iron mountains. Words slit in revelation. The crust of...
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On Holding a Russian Icon
Touching this icon flesh dissolves and our true containment contains us. What was great to us before now shrinks and the small and disregarded seed, the secret and abiding meaning of our lives,...
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Containment
Contained in flesh are we? No. No! Contained in the unimaginable sphere of God’s love. No small thing our cares, our fears until touched by this touch. This key turns us from our fears and turning...
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Icon of Mother and Child – Child Holding a Golden Ball
Mary’s son holds a golden sphere – the world in pure light. Past, present and future – poised in the palm of his hand. Mary’s son holds the Light that was before the light – the Light that was before...
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20 April 2010
I love my friend Anthea’s paintings. Three pictures, illustrations of my two books Myths of the Sacred Tree and Crystal Legends. I went to Santorini with her in 1990. I climbed a volcano with her, and...
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23 April 2010
I have a photograph of the canal in Bath by the door leading out of my living room, taken the day after my husband died. A house reflected in the canal. The real house windows are dark… no lights on…...
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A message from Moyra’s children
7 April 2014 by Stratford Moyra Caldecott’s children have recently finished moving Moyra into the Woodland Grove Care Home in Bath, and selling her house in Southdown. Her possessions have been...
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An article by Roger Jones
An interesting article about Moyra, written from an unique perspective, has been posted by Roger Jones, the founder of Ex Libris Books in Bradford on Avon.
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Moyra Caldecott, 1 June 1927 – 23 May 2015
Moyra was born and raised in South Africa, and studied English to Master’s level at the University of Natal. She met Oliver Caldecott† when she was lecturing at the University of Cape Town, joined him...
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Guardians of the Tall Stones now available as a Kindle ebook
Guardians of the Tall Stones by Moyra Caldecott, is now available exclusively for the Kindle from Amazon. You can also read it for free with Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. The...
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Moyra Caldecott tribute booklet
The tribute booklet is now available for download for all who would like a digital copy: moyra_caldecott_tribute_booklet.pdf It should open in your browser, from where you can save it to your hard...
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