Sequels

Sequels - A Friendship Captured in Image and Word is a book illuminated by the deeply bonded soul-connection between Vicki Miko and Xenia Tran, two poets and photographers from either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Picture zig-zagging from Scotland to California and back again to share their serendipitous friendship and passion.

Both women are facing profound challenges in life, each negotiating a carousel of ongoing health concerns and treatments, whilst never losing sight of the amazing world around them.

steps and ladders ...
there's still a story
on the loose
outside the harbour
beyond the seagull's rock
- Xenia Tran

the night wind moans
over the shoals
the lighthouse bull's-eye
flashes
its fog-coated beam
- Vicki Miko

The book contains tanka poems and tanka sequences, an ancient Japanese art form kept alive and adapted to the times we live in. You can open to any page to feel the poets' mood and genuine kinship. It's a book about stories bonded by their reflections from impermanence to fantasy. Vicki's and Xenia's writing highlight their observational skills, mindfulness, humour, love of nature and a heightened sense of awareness that the other world is never far away.

tree spirits
dance in the flames
at Imbolc
we toast the muse
raise a glass in laughter
- Xenia Tran

'til spring lilacs bloom
in the far garden
we nibble over our paperbacks
lifting our glance
to the call of a horned owl
- Vicki Miko

This collection takes you on a shared journey where you will travel to far-flung places, breathe in many vivid landscapes, meet a menagerie of creatures and characters, walking through all weathers. Two women, looking back on their lives and living in their challenging present, sharing their experiences and perspectives.
- Paul Tran

Words and photography entered my mind like cookies sinking into pudding.
- Lawrence Peralez

Our Human Authored Certification, a project by the Authors Guild,
confirms our images and words are original and our own.