At the point of seeing / Megan Kitching.

Poems.

Blue-tide -- When water was a galaxy -- The horses -- Memorial museum -- Botanising -- Weeds. Pūhā ; Goosegrass ; Herb Robert sonnet ; 16 ; Rimurapa/bull kelp -- Houseplants -- The bending moment -- Crematorium -- Verona by the Leith -- And with us in chorus -- Cold fusion -- Mornington -- A bee against a window -- Hiatus -- Asymptote -- Retracing -- One Hume's table -- Doodler -- Watch out walkers -- Arabica -- Appropriation -- Armrest -- The artist's site -- Growing advice -- Blackcurrants -- Sunstrike -- Dark skies -- Walking is controlled falling -- Round hill -- Mammoths -- Headland -- On Kamau Taurua -- Miro -- The beings -- Willow -- Prevailing -- Shelter -- Murmurations -- Riroriro -- Maelstrom -- Penguin colony, est. 1992 -- (bird of unknown affinities) -- Eye contact -- The inlet's shore -- Knifefisher -- Albatross -- An environmental history -- Volcanic harbour -- Prospect of refuge -- Between together and alone -- Tairua.

At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Otepoti 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 impulse to name, control and colonise meet nature’s 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’.