At the Point of Seeing

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Full text At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from tepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitchings poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked the places between dirt and thumb or together and alone and especially the weedy, overgrown and pest-infested places where the human impulse to name, control and colonise meet natures life force and wild exuberance. These compelling poems urge the reader to slow down and give space to the living, moving, breathing environment that surrounds them. the garden is making something of you, situated on the border of dirt and thumb, the corner with its stepover wall where two streets grow neighbourly and flora and animal meet. from Growing Advice

Author Bio

Megan Kitching was born in Tmaki Makarau Auckland and now lives in tepoti Dunedin. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Queen Mary University, London, looking at the influence of the natural sciences on eighteenth-century poetry. She has taught English and creative writing in the UK and at the University of Otago. Her poetry has appeared in The Frogmore Papers (UK), takah, Poetry New Zealand, and Landfall. The horses, published in takah 95, was nominated for Best Small Fictions 2020. In 2021, she was the inaugural Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writer Resident. At the Point of Seeing is her debut collection.