At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Aviva Dautch authenticity versus art

authenticity versus art

Cope continues to be the most generous of authors

She has a remarkable sense for how the self-discipline of illness—like art—can release and shape the language of wonder

it is both thoroughly Turkish and at the same time European - and beyond that

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching Aviva Dautch authenticity versus artAt 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