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No Friends But the Mountains: Walking in the Shoes of Kurdish Refugees
A remarkable video by interpreter and storyteller Shahsavar Rahmani and artist and animator Lucy Donald – now on YouTube
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On June 23 we will celebrate Refugee Week and present in real life new books we published doing lockdown:
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Alhaji Sheku Kamara‘s third collection with Hafan Books laments war and injustice in his beloved Sierra Leone and around the world, but (in the words of Gaskin Sanghor Faa-Suku) “the Phoenix symbolism shows the poet is optimistic that our country will rise from all those vices. And his love poems tickle as the poet’s heart skips a beat to his queen!” — Alhaji Kamara takes readers on an adventure in art, politics and love. Warning – the poems contain Krio, reggae, rap and dancehall!
ISBN 9781916044265
£4.99 from lulu.com
Martin White presents 45 song texts in search of voice and music, a selection from many more he has written over the years. The songs all have working melodies: they just need somebody to bring them to musical life. Martin is active in the charity Butterfly Conservation, and a longstanding volunteer with the award-winning Oxfam Bookshop, Castle Street, Swansea. Sales of this book (like all Hafan Books) raise money for Swansea Asylum Seekers Support.
ISBN 9781916044272
£5.99 from lulu.com
Second Home
by Joseff Williams – published 2021
“Second Home” tells the true stories of three people who came to Swansea as asylum seekers: Amber, Bie and Otis. Told in words and photographs, their stories ask you to imagine being in their situation.
All proceeds go to Swansea Asylum Seekers Support
Also new…
Refugees Writing in Wales
By People Seeking Sanctuary
Poetry, stories and essays written in Wales by people seeking sanctuary from wars and persecution, side by side with writing by others from Wales.
#1 Between a Mountain and a Sea (2003)
#2 Nobody’s Perfect (2004)
#3 Soft Touch (2005)
#4 Gwyl y Blaidd – The Festival of the Wolf (2006)
#5 Fragments from the Dark (2008)
#6 Are You Happy With That? (2013)
#7 My Heart Loves in My Language (2017)
Boiled String Poetry Chapbooks
Experimental poetry from Wales
Boiled String is edited by Professor John Goodby.
#1 Six of Clubs
by Childe Roland (2011)
#2 There’s Only the Dance
by David Barnett (2011)
#3 Mynydd
by Rhys Trimble (2011)
#4 Trees (2012)
by Childe Roland
#5 Bitch Dust (2012)
by Steven Hitchins
#6 Chroma (2012)
by Graham Hartill
#7 Thy Mine (2013)
by William Shakespeare, tr. by Tom Cheesman, Ulrike Draesner, Olive Ond
#8 Flower Angel Ship (2013) by Jörg Bernig
#9 Stars (2015)
by Childe Roland
#10 Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words (2015)
by Nia Davies
#11 Teint for the Bièvre (2016)
by Zoë Skoulding
#12 Zodiac (2018)
by Rhys Trimble
13# Grandiloquent Wretches (2020)
by Rhea Seren Philips
And More… Some Best Selling Hafan Titles
Hiraeth Erzolizoli
by Eric Ngalle Charles
The Sand Garden
by Humberto Garcia
Revolutionary Dreams: From Chile to Wales
by José Cifuentes
Asylum
by Eric Ngalle Charles
Personal Things and the Rest
by Edin Suljic
Perilous Kinship
by Zafer Şenocak
Fragments: Transcribing the Holocaust
by Frances Rapport with Anka Bergmann, Terry Farago and Edith Salter
Local Therapy
by Soleïman Adel Guémar
Zola’s Story
By Zola Gidi
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