National Song

Morag Smith's last poems are collected here in National Song. Her voice is untamed and passionate. Her work is forged from deep seams of raw experience and discovers resolution and beautiful purpose in the fine-tuning and exactitude of her craft. They bear witness to her rebellious soul, the long search for identity, belonging, and personhood. These poems wake us up. The magic of their language sparks out in cascades of illumination, hard-won truths, and joy mined out of darkness. National Song sings a healing for the wounds of life. These poems celebrate human kinship.