Anthologies
We are grateful and delighted that the following poems have been included in anthologies. The poems with a link have been published on our blogs as well.
Grandma Alice and Frozen Footsteps appear in Chiaroscuro – Darkness and Light, the beautiful anthology created by Mary Grace Guevara, Björn Rudberg and the team at dVerse Poets (2017).
Frozen Footsteps was subsequently published in our first full-length collection, Sharing Our Horizon (2018).
In 2022, we were delighted to learn that Chiaroscuro – Darkness and Light, is going to the moon. It is one of the poetry anthologies selected by Dr Samuel Peralta to be enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon, as a message-in-a-bottle to the future.
The Anthology will be part of The Polaris Collection, Dr Peralta’s payload associated with an Astrobotic Griffin/NASA VIPER mission, landing in the vicinity of the Lunar South Pole in November 2024.
You can read more about this collection here and more information about the Lunar Codex here.
First Light, Earthlight, Accepting the Sun and Shenandoah have been included in The Haiku Way to Healing Anthology edited by Robert Epstein (2022).
Adjusting Pillows, Back from the Shelter and A Wish have been included in The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology edited by Robert Epstein (2020).
A Wish had previously been published in Between Heather and Grass (2019).
Ochtendschemer, Rozen Snoeien and Nachtvissen have been included in Aan Het Woord 2022 – Lange Verhalen, edited by Riet de Bakker, Jan Guichelaar, Henk van der Werff and Jean-Marie Werrebrouck, published by Haiku Kring Nederland and Haiku-centrum Vlaanderen (2022).
Een Wilde Zee, Twee Reigers and Blauwe Druifjes, a Dutch interpretation of Little Blue Flower, have been included in Aan Het Woord 2020 – De Geur van Geluid, edited by Ferre Denis, Maria de Bie and Nol Hovens, published by Haiku Kring Nederland and Haiku-centrum Vlaanderen (2020).
Village Store appears in Bundled Wildflowers, Haiku Society of America 2020 Members Anthology, edited by Bryan Rickert (2020).
Where Moss Flows appears in Dance Into The World, Tanka Society of America Twentieth Anniversary Anthology, edited by Michael Dylan Welch (2020).
Zomerwind appears in Dé 17 van 2020, edited by Arie de Kluijver and designed by Jan Guichelaar, an e-book anthology published by Haiku Stichting Nederland (2021).
Winter Night appears in the 13th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest Selected Haiku Submissions Collection, curated by Takehisa Iijima, Noburu Oba, Joe Maricoji, Lisa Somers and Shuichiro Soma (2021).
Earth Day appears in Visiting the Wind, Haiku Society of America 2021 Members Anthology, edited by Erin C. Castaldi.
Soft and Forgiving appears in Self-Portrait, Tanka Society of America 2021 Members’ Anthology, edited by Michael H Lester (2022).
Eyes so Blue, first published in Presence #72, March 2022, appears in Dawn Returns, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2022, edited by John H Han.
A big thank you to the curators and editors for featuring my work and putting these beautiful anthologies together.
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Haiku and Tanka Journals
I am very grateful to the editors of The Asahi Shimbun, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, The Bamboo Hut, Frogpond, Ribbons, Troutswirl and Vuursteen for offering a loving home to my haiku, haibun, tanka and tanka prose.
Below is a small selection of featured haiku turned into haiga. You can click on any image for a larger view:
Clockwise from top left: Asahi Shimbun, 4 June 2021; Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021; Asahi Shimbun, 5 February 2021; Troutswirl, 20 May 2020; Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:1, Autumn-Winter 2020-2021; Frogpond, Vol. 43:3, Fall 2020.
Second series, clockwise from top left: haikuKATHA Issue 14, December 2022; Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:2, Spring-Summer 2022 ; The Asahi Shimbun, 30 December 2022.
… and here is a selection of tanka featured in Ribbons, turned into taiga:
From left to right: Ribbons, Winter 2020: Volume 16, Number 1; Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2020: Volume 16, Number 2; Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2021: Volume 17, Number 2.
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Awards and Honorable Mentions
I am deeply honoured and delighted to be included in the European Top 100 Most Creative Haiku Authors in 2021 and 2022. A warm-hearted thank you to Krzysztof Kokot for selecting me and many congratulations to all selected haiku poets.
falling petals
he finds his mother
behind the rain
© Xenia Tran
Honorable Mention in the International Section of the 2020 Haiku Invitational at the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. A big thank you to judges Agnes Savich, Beth Skala and Gary Hotham for selecting my poem and many congratulations to all the winners.
early dawn
he fills the doorframe
with his laughter
© Xenia Tran
Honorable Mention in the 22nd HIA Haiku Contest (2020). A warm-hearted thank you to David Burleigh for selecting my poem and many congratulations to all the other winners.
mountain hare
behind the stones
his own dusk
© Xenia Tran
Honorable Mention in the 24th HIA Haiku Contest (2022). A warm-hearted thank you to Toshio Kimura for selecting my poem and many congratulations to all the other winners.
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Special Features
We are humbled and delighted that the following poems have been featured in a Haiku Calendar, the World Haiku Series 2019 (with Japanese translations), an annual collaborative poem by haiku poets from around the world, a Japanese Television Programme on Haiku, a Poetry Video Journal, a special Taiga Video, a Poetry Ireland initiative on #SelfIsolationHelp and Placing Poems, a poetic cartography of adventures especially created as an escape during the pandemic. A selection of my photographs appears in some of these features too.
Haiku Calendars
Dorpswinkel appears (in Dutch) in the Haiku-kantelkalender 2023. The calendar features fifty-two haiku by poets from Belgium and The Netherlands and is available from Haiku-centrum Vlaanderen. A very big thank you to Régine Dendooven and the team for including my poem and putting this beautiful calendar together.
Grafsteen appears (in Dutch) in the Haiku-kantelkalender 2022. The calendar features fifty-two haiku by poets from Belgium and The Netherlands and is available from Haiku-centrum Vlaanderen. A very big thank you to Régine Dendooven and the team for including my poem and putting this beautiful calendar together.
Mount Fuji appears (in Dutch) in the Haiku-kantelkalender 2021. The calendar features fifty-two haiku by poets from Belgium and The Netherlands and is available from Haiku-centrum Vlaanderen (9 Euro per calendar plus postage). A very big thank you to Ferre Denis and the team for including my poem and putting this beautiful calendar together.
World Haiku Series 2021
I am deeply honoured, grateful and delighted to share ten haiku, five of them as photo haiku, in the World Haiku Series 2021, organised by The Akita International Haiku Network. A warm-hearted thank you to Mr Hidenori Hiruta for his beautiful Japanese translations and to Akita Prefectural Government, Akita International University, Akita Prefectural Board of Education, Akita City, Akita City Board of Education, The Akita Sakigake, The Haiku International Association and The Committee to Register Haiku as UNESCO World Heritage for sponsoring this beautiful series.
The following haiku were included and those with a link feature in a blog post too:
Settling Down
(The Asahi Shimbun, 5 February 2021)
Entwined
(Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021)
Desert Flower
(Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 4 March 2021)
Moonlight
(The Asahi Shimbun, 17 September 2021)
First Light
(Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 4 August 2021)
Stars on the River
(The Bamboo Hut, Number 3, 2021)
COP26
(The Asahi Shimbun, 19 November 2021)
Shapes and Shadows
(EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2021 – Entering the Earth, The Haiku Foundation)
World Haiku Series 2020
I am deeply honoured to share Haiku and Photo Haiku as part of the World Haiku Series 2020, facilitated by the Akita International Haiku Network in respect of the 326th anniversary of Matsuo Bashõ’s passing and in respect of all the souls who lost their lives to COVID-19. A warm-hearted thank you to Mr Hidenori Hiruta for his beautiful Japanese translations and for creating this wonderful series.
The following haiku were included, those with a link feature in a blog post too:
Sunrise
(Frogpond Vol 43:3, Fall 2020)
His Grey Hair
(The Bamboo Hut, Issue 4 – 2020)
Village Store
(Bundled Wildflowers, Haiku Society of America 2020 Members’ Anthology)
Lily of the Valley
(Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 20 May 2020)
Adjusting Pillows
(EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020 and subsequently anthologised in The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology, edited by Robert Epstein, Middle Island Press, 2020)
Dreamcatcher
(Frameless Sky Issue 12, 2020)
Back from the Shelter
(EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020 and subsequently anthologised in The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology, edited by Robert Epstein, Middle Island Press, 2020)
Falling Petals
(Honourable Mention in the International Section of the 2020 Haiku Invitational at the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival)
Firefly
(Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 10 June 2020)
Little Blue Flower
(Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 15 April 2020)
World Haiku Series 2019
It is a great honour and pleasure to be one of the featured Haiku Poets in the World Haiku Series 2019, hosted and facilitated by the Akita International Haiku Network. A big thank you to Mr Hidenori Hiruta , who translated my poems into Japanese.
The featured poems are:
Passing Spring
(Between Heather and Grass – Poems and Photographs Filled with Love, Hope and Whippets by Xenia Tran)
Garden Buddha
(EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2019, The Haiku Foundation)
Colours of the Sea
(Between Heather and Grass – Poems and Photographs Filled with Love, Hope and Whippets by Xenia Tran)
Hazy Moon
(Sharing Our Horizon – A Journey Through the Scottish Highlands with Two Adopted Whippets by Xenia Tran)
Freedom of the Dawn
(Sharing Our Horizon – A Journey Through the Scottish Highlands with Two Adopted Whippets by Xenia Tran)
EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration
It is a true pleasure to be able to contribute poems to this creative collaboration with haiku poets from around the world, facilitated by The Haiku Foundation.
Floating Swan and Sweet Starling appeared in EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2018 – The Year of the Bird.
A Drop of Bliss, Celtic Mist and Garden Buddha appeared in EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2019 – The Year of Indigenous Languages. The last haiku was subsequently translated into Japanese by Mr Hidenori Hiruta and featured in the 2019 World Haiku Series.
Flowering Tulips, Great Aunt Faye, Deep Gratitude, Simple Kindness, Adjusting Pillows and Back from the Shelter appeared in EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020 – The Year of the Nurse. The last two haiku were subsequently anthologised in The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology (R Epstein, Ed, 2020) and Adjusting Pillows is currently being translated into Japanese for the next World haiku Series.
Shapes and Shadows, Sunlight on her Wings and Seeds of Peace appeared in EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2021 – Entering the Earth.
A warm thank you to Jim Kacian and The Haiku Foundation for putting these beautiful publications together and to all the other contributing poets whose input makes this annual event so special.
Haiku Masters
We are deeply honoured, humbled and delighted that Winter Mist and one of the images from the post featured as a Photo Haiku on NHK World Japan’s Haiku Masters in Tokyo Part 1, broadcast on 4th March 2019 from Tokyo. We are very grateful to presenters Kit Pancoast Nagamura , Kazuko Nishimura and Dan Mitsu for their thoughtful and entertaining interpretation of this photo haiku.
Frameless Sky
I am humbled and delighted to be the Featured Artist in Frameless Sky Issue 13, a poetry video journal featuring forty of my nature photographs, a reading by Hemapriya Chellappan, poems by seventy-six poets from eighteen different countries and music by Sascha Ende. A very big thank you to Christine L Villa and Shloka Shankar for featuring my images and to all the contributors who helped putting this beautiful edition together. The video is available in DVD format or via private YouTube link which can be purchased from Frameless Sky.
A sneak preview is available in the clip
Dreamcatcher was first published in Frameless Sky Issue 12, a poetry video journal featuring artwork by Hemapriya Chellappan, music by Corine Timmer and poems from more than fifty poets from all corners of the world. A very big thank you to Christine L Villa and Shloka Shankar for featuring my poem and putting this beautiful edition together. The video is available in DVD format or private YouTube link which can be purchased from Frameless Sky.
A sneak preview is available in the clip
Taiga Video
In April 2020 we were honoured and delighted to have Zen Meditation featured as a taiga (a haiga with a tanka) as part of the Tanka Society of America’s 20th Anniversary celebrations.
Twenty-one taiga were featured in total, created by Tanka poets from around the world. Christine L Villa brought them all together in this beautiful video:
A very big thank you to all the organisers and editors involved for featuring my poems and photographs and putting these wonderful projects together.
#SelfIsolationHelp – Poetry Ireland
Catherine Ann Cullen, Poetry Ireland’s Poet in Residence, has been running a weekly poetry prompt for adults and children during the pandemic. As a regular contributor I am deeply honoured and delighted that Stepping Stones was featured as part of the Poetry Ireland Poetry Prompt Series on social media on 12th April 2021 …
… and that Waterfall was featured on Catherine Ann’s Poet in Residence Blog in July 2021.
A warm-hearted thank you to Catherine Ann and Poetry Ireland for their inspiration and support during the pandemic and for featuring my poems in this way.
Placing Poems
In April 2021 Placing Poems invited poets to write about real or imagined journeys away from the stifling realities of the pandemic to create a poetic cartography of adventures for everyone to enjoy.
I am honoured and delighted that my poem Presence was selected for inclusion. You can find it on the map when you scroll north and click on the marker for the Cairngorms National Park.
River Nairn Swans & Waterfowl Trust 2022 Calendar
It is both a great honour and pleasure to contribute four images to The River Nairn Swans & Waterfowl Trust 2022 Calendar and help raise funds in support of our local river wildlife.
A warm-hearted thank you to Iona Gibson and Joe Telfer from River Nairn Swans & Waterfowl Trust for featuring my images and putting this beautiful calendar together.
Below are two examples of featured photographs. You can click on any image for a larger view:
For more information please visit our Caring for River Wildlife post.
Interview with Bella Shah on ThoughtsnLifeBlog
This lovely interview was published in two parts on Bella’s ThoughtsnLifeBlog in February 2021. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Thank you so much for your thoughtful questions and this lovely feature Bella!
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Whippet Wisdom - a Highland Journey 
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