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Hafan Books is a Swansea Asylum Seekers Support project – all proceeds go to the charity. We collaborate with the Open University’s Covid Chronicles.

2 new books in 2023. Poems and stories by women with tales to tell… Launch party 13 December, 6pm at Volcano, Swansea

Aruni McShane: Of Monitors and Men. Poems and Stories. ISBN 978-1-9160442-9-6. £6.99. Buy from Lulu.com

Aruni McShane is an educator, rights activist and student of creative writing, who has come from a war-torn country in South Asia.

Jon Gower praises Aruni as “an author who can see an often cruel world for what it is, even as she looks penetratingly into the darknesses of the heart. Often brutally vivid and emotionally impactful, these unsettling stories and poems hold the reader in a metal grip. Once started, they simply will not let you go.”

“I was asked to write a poem / in a language / which my mind couldn’t use to / think what I think / and know what I know. / It ran away…” (from “Empty and Troubled”)

Tarh Martha Ako Mfortem: Unbound: Poems 2022-2023. 978-1-7384049-0-2. £6.99. Buy from Lulu.com

Dr T M A Mfortem is a rights activist, researcher, educator and psychologist from a war-torn country in Africa.

Eric Ngalle Charles praises this “gem of a collection. These poems will slice through your deepest fears and lay them bare. Talk about setting the place on fire. Martha’s poems and their integrity shine throughout, and they catch you from the start, leaving no room for manoeuvre.”

These poems condemn the obsessions of world readers and crusade for peace, but also celebrate the kindness of strangers and the beauties of nature: “I claim this liberty / To listen to my bottle sing / As it empties, its music divine…”

Previously from Hafan…

MY JEALOUS VISITOR – POEMS AND TESTIMONY by MAXSON SAHR KPAKIO

Max Kpakio works in Swansea (Wales, UK) and Liberia as a journalist, community activist and human rights campaigner. His poems and testimony reflect on struggles for justice and dignity, living with the consequences of polio, and the importance of solidarity. ISBN 9781916044289. Available at Lulu.com here. Price may show USD $6.21 or GBP £5.00 — the book can be ordered just the same. All proceeds go to the charity Swansea Asylum Seekers Support.

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No Friends But the Mountains: Walking in the Shoes of Kurdish Refugees

July 2022. 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:

…. MORE NEW BOOKS ….

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

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