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Moyra Caldecott

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 frees us. Now we know that we are known… and cared for. Small are we? No. No! Each fills [...]

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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, expands. With God’s all-seeing eye we see and seeing know. In His hands we rest and in His heart are blessed.

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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 long-accustomed thought    shatters and an unfamiliar landscape    is revealed. Published in The William Blake Birthday Book (ISBN 9780956199904)

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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 colour the fabric of our dreams and memories. Words and images flux and flow… change… reform… and give illusion of reality. Who [...]

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Oliver Caldecott 1925-1989

Adapted from a Memoir by Moyra Caldecott Moyra Caldecott and family warmly invite you to an exhibition to celebrate the life and art of Oliver Caldecott in the 20th year since his death.  It runs from 6-18 April 2009, and there will be a TEA PARTY to mark the last day of the exhibition on [...]

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The Eye of Callanish

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The Eye of Callanish is set at the beginning of the twelfth century on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. It tells the story of a young girl, Mairi, who is persecuted for being in league with the Devil. She believes that she is able to communicate [...]

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Living memories that inspire the mythical writer

“Living memories that inspire the mythical writer”, an article by Susie Weldon from the Western Daily Press, 16th February 1998 (reprinted with permission). Moyra Caldecott is fascinated by myth and religion, archaeology and history. But whereas other authors rely only on research and imagination to recreate a period, Moyra calls upon actual memories to do [...]

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A biographical sketch

Written in the mid-nineties by Moyra… Born in 1927 in Pretoria, South Africa. Started academic career by obtaining degrees in English Literature and Philosophy. Briefly lectured in English Literature at university level. Married in 1951. Raised three children and had a most interesting and stimulating life as the wife of Oliver Caldecott in London from [...]

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An Interview with Venue Magazine

These are answers to some interview questions posed in 1997 by Venue, the local listings magazine, based in Bath and Bristol, UK. The magazine later carried a feature on Moyra Caldecott and her new book Aquae Sulis (later republished as The Waters of Sul) The novel Aquae Sulis uses the name of the town of [...]

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