At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Amali Rodrigo Notebook of Last Things draws

Notebook of Last Things draws on the lyric to meditate on the present

Hopeful and hopeless

Confident and assured of voice

She is a previous winner of a Northern Writers’ Award for Short Fiction

Acting as a bridge between these two works is a series of individual poems on the creation and destruction of cultural and mythical conventions

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Amali Rodrigo Notebook of Last Things drawsAt the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from tepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching's 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 impulses to name, control and colonise meet nature's