At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching #PBSChristmas Broken Sleep Books (Books of

Broken Sleep Books (Books of the Year 2023)

‘Strong in the Rain’ – the title-poem of this selection – is now arguably the most memorised and quoted modern poem in Japan

— Robert Kiely

in space and time

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching #PBSChristmas Broken Sleep Books (Books ofAt 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