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NOBODY'S PERFECT
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Nobody's Perfect: Refugees Writing in Wales 2 (Swansea: Hafan Books, June 2004)
ISBN 0954514718 - 96 pages - £7.50 (£5 each for two or more copies, when buying direct from us)
Editors: Eric Ngalle Charles, Tom Cheesman and Sylvie Hoffmann
Great poetry, fiction, true stories, opinion and humour by asylum seekers and refugees
side by side with other Wales-based writers. The second book in an annual series.
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. Any surplus goes to registered charities assisting asylum seekers and refugees in Wales (e.g. the Welsh Refugee Council's Hardship Fund).
The book is free to people who are supported by NASS or who have been denied support by NASS.
Contents
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Introduction : Tom Cheesman
Notes on the Contributors
A Dream : Michael Mokako
Let’s Get Along : Alice Salomon Bowen
Sunday 11 March 2001 : Andy Hyka
The Dog House : Negar Ragaby
The Volcano in My Life : Ursula Presgrave
Home or Away? : Dahir, Dorcas, Olivier and Susan
An Ageing Woman : Eric Ngalle Charles with Mandazamba Zukele
Running To : Martin White
Hereafter : Soleïman Adel Guémar
We Miracle-Workers : Zhila Irani
Swansea Collage 2 composed by Sylvie Hoffmann
Progress and True Progress : Maxson Sahr Kpakio
The Madness of Language : Anahita Alikhani
Swansea Babel Abertawe : ‘Writers in Exile'
News from Iraq : Yosef Ali, Noser Sultani and Ahmed Zai with Eric Ngalle Charles
The Text Committee : Abdalla Bashir-Khairi
Two Poems : Mahmood Ahmadifard
Lila : Hamira A. Geedy
Three Poems : Eric Ngalle Charles
This, or the Deluge...! : Abdalla Bashir-Khairi
Africa, Mother : Aliou Keita
Eight Poems : Soleïman Adel Guémar
The Wanderer : anonymous, trans. Steve Short
Two Poems : Aimé Kongolo
The Poet’s Garden : Soleïman Adel Guémar
Dream 2 : S. and H.D. Albertson
The launch event was at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea Marina, on Wednesday June 23, 2004, from 7.30 pm to about 10.30.
Free. All welcome. Food provided. Music performed by amazing Iraqi Kurdish singer Aziz Salam from Cardiff (who performed at last year's gig) and two Swansea bands: FourPlay (Margot Morgan, Nigel Jenkins, Jen Wilson and friends - they also performed at last year's gig) and the Experimental Painters (Sue Ellery, John Ford and friends).
Plus short speeches Edwina Hart AM (Minister for Equality in the Welsh Assembly) and a few other dignitaries ...
Nobody's Perfect on sale for a special offer price of £5 (full price £7.50).
The book is free to people who are supported by NASS or who have been denied support by NASS.
Event organised by SBASSG in collaboration with the Welsh Refugee Council, the British Red Cross and Displaced People in Action.
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