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Xenia Tran

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Poetry, Nonfiction

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Xenia Tran is a linguist, poet, artist and photographer who lives and works in the Scottish Highlands with her husband and adopted animals. Originally from The Netherlands, she writes haiku, haibun, tanka, tanka prose and tanka sequences as well as western poetry forms and free verse poetry. Her work has appeared in print and online journals, anthologies, calendars, art installations and videos, as well as on radio and television. In addition, she has published two full-length collections in aid of charities close to her heart.

Xenia is a member of the Society of Authors, Tanka Society of America, the Haiku Society of America and a patron of Poetry Ireland.

Her first book, Sharing Our Horizon, was published in 2018 in aid of animal rehoming c ...more

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	Sharing our Horizon: A Journey Through the Scottish Highlands with Two Adopted Whippets 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Heather and Grass: Poems and Photographs Filled with Love, Hope and Whippets it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sequels: A Friendship Captured in Image and Word by Vicki Miko, Xenia Tran (Goodreads Author) (Photographer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

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Xenia Tran rated a book it was amazing Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) by Manchán Magan	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Another beautiful book by Manchan Magan, published shortly before his untimely passing. This wonderful coffee-table size book differs from his earlier publications in that it mainly focuses on the Irish words for rain themselves, without the anecdote ...more
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Xenia Tran rated a book it was amazing The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow by Jackie Morris (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A magical book with fairytales for grown-ups, beautifully written and illustrated by Jackie Morris. Her images and stories leave enough dream-room for your own imagination and/or musical interpretation and I can see how it will inspire many of us to ...more
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Xenia Tran rated a book it was amazing Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A beautiful, organic look at the Irish language written by a beautiful human being who sadly left this world too soon. With this, and his other works, he has left us a wonderful gift and insights into a language that has been around for millennia and ...more
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A beautiful and poignant final collection of poetry by Helen Dunmore, charting the in-between land before her passing.
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