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moira richards
Non-fiction and poetry writer / editor / publisher

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PUBLISHED: Dec.30.2010

Journal of Renga & Renku

170 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations, Commentaries and Reports

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2010

The Plenitude of Emptiness: collected haibun by Hortensia Anderson published by Darlington Richards

Life, no matter how challenging, is a source of grace, inspiration, sensuality and wry humor in Hortensia Anderson's creative writing. Her haibun are executed in brief, delicate brushstrokes that skillfully weave the ethereal and wistful through the harsh realities of life. A leitmotiv of loss being transcended by beauty reverberates through her work. She writes with...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2010

Nomads Golf Club: through golf, the remembrance of others 1960 - 2010 compiled and edited by Moira Richards

Nomads 50th Commemorative Book The Nomads Golf Club was founded in Johannesburg in 1960 by Michael Florance, a man who had a dream of giving back some of his own good fortune to those around him, and of creating a club of like-minded people. The club began with 106 members and now has membership of around 2 000. It thrives in five countries and has 12 clubs in South...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2008

Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po LISTSERV edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler & others

LETTERS TO THE WORLD is the first anthology of its kind—a feminist collaboration born from The Discussion of Women’s Poetry Listserv (Wom-po), a vibrant, inclusive electronic community founded in 1997 by Annie Finch. With an introduction by D’Arcy Randall and brief essays by the poets themselves reflecting on the history and spirit of the listserv, the book presents a rich array of...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2009

Applied Accounting FET College Series Level 3 (co-author)

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2008

Economics Gr11 Guidelines

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2008

Economic Environment NQF 4 LB (co-author)

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2008

Economic Environment NQF 4 SB (co-author)

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2008

Quick-fix Economics GR12

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2008

Economic Environment FET College Series Level 3 (co-author)

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2008

Financial Management FET College Series Level 3

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moira's Latest Blogs

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Mar.29.2012 - 6:44 am

Journal of Renga & Renku, Issue 2

Darlington Richards Press is delighted to announce that Journal of Renga & Renku, Issue 2, is now available http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index...../products-page/ 278...

Jan.24.2012 - 4:38 am

Donker Plekke by François Bloemhof (ed.), reviewed by Moira Richards

Many of my reading pals dislike short stories – too many beginnings, too many endings; like driving in rush hour traffic, they say. Lack of flow can be a problem in collections of...

Jan.20.2012 - 12:22 am

Illuminating Love by Hazel Frankel, reviewed by Moira Richards

Thousands of Lithuanian Jews emigrated to South Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to escape conscription, the pogroms and other manifestations of...

Nov.14.2011 - 2:41 am

Die Jakkalsdans by François Loots reviewed by Moira Richards

Imagine living in a town where there is as much asbestos as dust in the air. Imagine living in a town where, in the middle of summer, children play in the silver ‘snow’ of...

Comments from moira

May.17.2011 - 10:47 am

In response to: Joonie by Rayda Jacobs, reviewed by Moira Richards

thank you, Susan :-)

May.24.2010 - 3:01 am

In response to: Review of Persephone Books novel in verse: Lettice Delmer by Susan Miles

enjoy!

I see Persephone recently put out a second novel in verse but I've not had time to look at it yet

May.14.2010 - 8:04 am

In response to: A Woolf Trilogy from Persephone Books

Hello Harrison, it's good to

Hello Harrison, it's good to meet a fellow fan of both! Thanks for dropping by and commenting so kindly. Years ago,...

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Dec.01.2010

The Plenitude of Emptiness: collected haibun by Hortensia Anderson published by Darlington Richards

Published by http://www.haijinx.org/III-1/reviews/poe.html

In hortensia’s book The Plenitude of Emptiness, the lyrical quality of hortensia’s haibun (prose with haiku) is outstanding, to say the least. There is a unity that relies on...

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About moira

I practice as an accountant in South Africa and earn a living by completing tax returns and writing books. And also 1. author and co- author of a number of high school textbooks in various business subjects published by Pearson Education South Africa...

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