At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Amali Rodrigo spiritual / alien intervention and

spiritual / alien intervention and intrusion into the human realm

but further off

the earwig within

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

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 spiritual / alien intervention andAt 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