The Sand Garden

by Humberto Garcia

Humberto Garcia’s brilliant The Sand Garden is Hafan’s first single-author book, and our first combined poetry and photography book.

16 poems in Spanish and English by Humberto Gatica, with 11 photographs by the author, and an afterword by Nigel Jenkins. David Constantine describes the poems as “stark, exact, unsentimental. A cold wind whistles through them: breath nevertheless”

Available to buy from Lulu.com.

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Publication Date: 28/02/2008

Category: Poetry

ISBN: 978-0-9545147-5-4

SECOND HOME

by Joseff Williams

“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. When you finish reading this book, you will appreciate why it is important for our cities to be safe and inclusive, and why we need a humane and effective asylum process. This is a book to share – pass it on!

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• Cover to Cover bookshop in Mumbles, Swansea – sales@cover-to-cover.co.uk   01792 366363

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Publication Date: 09/04/2021

ISBN: 9781916044258

Category: Photography

Imagined Invited

Edited by David Greenslade, illustrations by Mark Sanders.

“A mind-enhancing project, this text and image dialogue is a new sublime Conference of the Birds, which drives us into areas where revolt is synonymous with the marvellous.” Michel Remy (author: of Surrealism in Britain)

‘Fruit surprises the garden’ when 20 poets and artists from seven countries invite their imagined guests (always including one from Wales) to a Surrealist party inspired by André Breton. Each party poem receives an outrageous response from the dissection table of Mark Sanders: 24 glorious full-colour collages to play tricks with your mind. A mercurial feast of word and image, verse and the visual. Cut-up and cut-up. Veteran Surrealist Desmond Morris (of Naked Ape fame) joins the next generations of révolté writers: Luminita Amarie / Jean Bonnin / Neil Coombs / David Rees Davies / Roxana Dumitrache / Jonathan Edwards / Sarah Glaz / Tim Grant / David Greenslade / Steven Hitchins / Doru Mihai Mateiciuc / David Nadeau / Rhea Seren Phillips / Brian Purdy / Dagmar Stepankova / Rhys Trimble / Christopher Twigg / Nerys Williams (from Romania, Canada, Ireland, France, the Czech Republic, the USA and especially Wales).

On Sale: 21/10/2020

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Publication Date: 21/10/2020

ISBN: 9781916044241

Category: Poetry

Fragments from the Dark

by People Seeking Sanctuary

The fifth anthology from Hafan Books in Swansea, featuring poems, stories and other texts by female refugees, focusing on the issues that displaced women face today. These works are side by side with that of local writers, creating a dialogue that bridges continents, language and cultures.

As with all Hafan Books, proceeds to go Swansea Asylum Seekers Support.

On Sale: 01/06/2008

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Publication Date: 01/06/2008

ISBN: 9781905762200

Category: Stories

Gwyl y Blaidd – The Festival of the Wolf

by People Seeking Sanctuary

The fourth anthology from Hafan Books with Parthian Books in Swansea, featuring poems, stories and other texts by about 20 refugees – women, men and children – from as many countries, side by side with work by local writers. 

If you’d like to read the PDF of Gwyl y Blaidd, please consider donating to Swansea Asylum Seekers Support

On Sale: 15/06/2006

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Publication Date: 15/06/2006

ISBN:  9781905762200

Category: Stories

Soft Touch

by People Seeking Sanctuary

The third anthology from Hafan Books in Swansea, featuring poems, stories and other texts by about 20 refugees – women, men and children – from as many countries, side by side with work by local writers. 

If you’d like to read the PDF of Soft Touch, please consider donating to Swansea Asylum Seekers Support

On Sale: 01/06/2005

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Publication Date: 01/06/2005

ISBN:  978-0954514730

Category: Stories

Nobody’s Perfect

by People Seeking Sanctuary

The second anthology from Hafan Books in Swansea, featuring poems, stories and other texts by about 20 refugees – women, men and children – from as many countries, side by side with work by local writers. 

Hilarious or heart-breaking, professionally crafted or raw, in broken English or expertly translated from languages including Arabic, Farsi and French, this is a collection to open eyes.

If you’d like to read the PDF of Nobody’s Perfect, please consider donating to Swansea Asylum Seekers Support

On Sale: 01/06/2004

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Publication Date: 01/06/2004

ISBN: 978-0954514716

Category: Stories

Between a Mountain and a Sea

by People Seeking Sanctuary

Poems, fiction, drama and testimony – lament, plea, satire and celebration – by refugees and asylum seekers living in Wales. Includes two dozen refugee writers from as many countries, mostly African and Middle Eastern. Translations from Arabic, Farsi, Spanish, French and ‘broken English’. Cover artwork by Humberto Gatica (Chile/Swansea). Also includes original poems/essays by several other Wales-based writers, and translations from old Welsh. 

If you’d like to read the PDF of Between a Mountain and a Sea, please consider donating to Swansea Asylum Seekers Support.

On Sale: 17/06/2003

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Publication Date: 17/06/2003

ISBN: 978-0954514709

Category: Stories

Mynydd

by Rhys Trimble

“If you want to know where the cutting edge of poetry is, then read, and enjoy” — from the Afterword by Chris Torrance. 

“Of course the recurrent, slightly skewed, botanical descriptions of Welsh alpines attracted my attention (mynydd = mountain). But these descriptions, and the Welsh language elements, are only two of the tubes of pigment that squirtingly compose this airy, rather joyous, funny and romantic and open-ended forcefield.” – Intecapillary Space

On Sale: 03/11/2011

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Publication Date: 03/11/2011

ISBN: 978-0956947314

Category: Poetry

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