Author Description

Pretty Green Thorns is Meg Smith's fifth book of poetry, and her fourth book published by Emu Books.In Pretty Green Thorns, Meg Smith draws from -- and pays homage to -- her Irish-American heritage and identity.The poems in this book draw their inspiration from history, spirituality, nature and the supernatural; from ancestors, family and friends.They speak of love, loss, and the cycles and seasons of life.Art Ketchen, editor and publisher of Celtic Beat magazine, writes, "This book of poetry, considered as a whole, is a world unto itself. It is made from the physical, tactile, observed world, and the inner, personal, and mythic world, and it is about transformation."