At the Point of Seeing - Megan Kitching

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching

Published by: Otago University Press

Winner of: BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD POETRY

The Best First Book Award is sponsored by Mātātuhi Foundation.

With a polymath’s ear and a photographer’s eye, Megan Kitching creates sharp, complex pictures of the landscapes and lifescapes of Aotearoa. Many of her best poems focus on unruly coastal zones as points of contact, where history is always being made and remade, but she doesn’t ignore the human domain with its ‘petty hungers or awkward flutters’. Importantly, her work insists on the fact that difficult social and political questions cannot be separated from aesthetic ones.