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Fragments from the Dark: Women Writing Home and Self in Wales
edited by Jeni Williams and Latéfa Guémar
Book launch March 20, 2008 at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea (7 pm)
Poetry music international food fun for kids ALL FREE ALL WELCOME
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FRAGMENTS FROM THE DARK Women Writing Home and Self in Wales
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Artwork by Romisa Asadi |
Edited by Jeni Williams and Latéfa Guémar ISBN 978-0-9545147-4-7 Hafan Books £6.99 Poems, testimonies & fiction by women born Welsh or settled in Wales, including professional writers side by side with women who have found themselves swept from their homes by tides of violence and arrived, dazed with shock and loss, here… Elin ap Hywel Maedeh Asadi Rhian Saadat Rosemary Jones Stevie Krayer Rouhi Downing Imène Guémar Deborah Davies Carol Rumens Meryam Fotohe Aimé Kongolo Gwyneth Lewis Maggie Harris Hamira Ageedy Stevie Davies Ingrid Bousquet Kate D’Lima Mona Balbaki Tracey Curtis Dahlian Kirby Pascale Petit Fridah Kimani Carolyn Edge Zoulikha Zaidi Romisa Asadi Amani Elawad Liz Morrison Sadhbh O’Dwyer Kimba Cate Elizabeth Baines Zhila Irani Trezza Azzopardi Janet Dubé Sylvie Hoffmann Jackie Aber Tiffany Atkinson Fiona Owen Angela Hill-Jones Jo Mazelis Afsaneh Firoozyar Nedjma X Emily Hinshelwood Monika X Nazand Begikhani Perian X Anahita Alikhani Parvin X Farzaneh Dadkhah Kera X Catherine Merriman |
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All proceeds to refugee charities — Info: www.hafan.org Event sponsors: Oxfam Cymru City & County of Swansea Communities First Trust Fund Organisers: Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group + Welcome2Play & Alternative Dialogues |
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PDF Files
Free downloads
Between a Mountain and a Sea (main text only) (356 KB)
"Gŵyl y Blaidd / The Festival of the Wolf"
June 2006
SOFT TOUCH - refugees writing in Wales 3
June 2005 - click here for details
NOBODY'S PERFECT - refugees writing in Wales 2
June 2004 click here for details
hafan: Welsh for haven, refuge, sanctuary (the f is spoken like an English v)
between a mountain and a sea
refugees writing in Wales
published June 2003 -- now out of print. Full contents available here
Swansea, Hafan Books, 2003 ISBN 0–9545147–0–X 96 pages £5.00
Editors: Eric Ngalle Charles, Tom Cheesman and Sylvie Hoffmann (who are we?)
Poetry, fiction, drama and testimony, featuring the voices of two dozen asylum seekers and refugees, and half a dozen other writers of Wales, including Menna Elfyn, Nigel Jenkins, Moira Andrew, Isabel Adonis and more.
What other websites say about the book - click here
Hafan Books is a non-profit publisher on behalf of Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group.
All proceeds go direct to this community group, which is run by asylum seekers, refugees and other local people.
You can use our order form if you want.
Please write or email Hafan Books
c/o Tom Cheesman
School of Arts
Swansea University
SA2 8PP
Wales
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The BOOK LAUNCH was in Refugee Week, on Tuesday June 17 at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. Organised in partnership with the British Red Cross. With readings by eight of the writers in the book, and music and dance by SBASSG members, Aziz Salam from Cardiff ("the Gareth Gates of Iraq" - Welsh Mirror), Martyn Joseph, and FourSquare featuring Margot Morgan, Nigel Jenkins and Jen Wilson from the Women's Jazz Archive. Over 250 people attended, and a very good time was had by all.
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Who are we? Introducing the editors ...
Eric Ngalle Charles (b.1977) left Cameroon on his way to Belgium under socio-economic and political pressure, and in his confusion he ended up in the hands of human traffickers. That saw him ending up in Russian, where he spent nearly 3 years honing his survival skills before he managed to get papers to get to the UK.
He now lives in Cardiff and has begun making a name as a writer. He has worked in schools across South Wales, using poetry to get children to examine their assumptions about asylum seekers (part of a Cardiff University project). He was the subject of an HTV documentary last year, and had his work translated into Welsh at the St David's Eisteddfod. He is now working on an autobiographical novel and a volume of poetry. He writes in English, and occasionally also in French and Russian. Click here to watch a webcast of the HTV show 'Melting Pot' featuring Eric. Email: st02004288@uwic.ac.uk
Tom Cheesman (b.1961) comes from England. He has taught in the German Department at University of Wales Swansea since 1990. He translates poetry and fiction from German and has edited several academic books. He is a volunteer activist with Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group and sits on the management committees of the Wales-wide charities Displaced People in Action and Croeso. Email: t.cheesman@swan.ac.uk
Sylvie Hoffmann came from France to Wales in the 1970s. She teaches and works as a storyteller and artist in a variety of projects, and volunteers with SBASSG. Email: sylviebach@hotmail.com
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Where is the book for sale?
Selected outlets in Swansea:
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The Dylan Thomas Centre bookshop 01792 463980
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Borders Bookshop, Parc Fforestfach, Swansea 01792 579578
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The Heyokah Centre 01792 457880
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The Uplands Bookshop 01792 472240
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Waterstone's bookshop on Swansea University campus (Taliesin arts centre) 01792 296883
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The Jazzy Anthill, St Helen's Road
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.... watch this space ....
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