At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Amali Rodrigo Hopeful and hopeless

Hopeful and hopeless

you will find verse that will transport you to vivid spring-time scenes

but further off

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

and perpetually haunted by an old flame

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Amali Rodrigo Hopeful and hopelessAt 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