Photo credit: Claire Lacey

Megan Kitching reads from At the Point of Seeing, Otago University Press, 2023.

‘Headland’

‘Crematorium’

‘Houseplants’

Megan Kitching holds a PhD in English Literature from Queen Mary University of London, looking at the influence of the natural sciences on eighteenth-century poetry. She has taught English and creative writing in the UK and at the University of Otago. Her poetry has been widely published in Aotearoa New Zealand and international journals. In 2021, she was the inaugural Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writer Resident. Her debut poetry collection is At the Point of Seeing (Otago University Press, 2023).

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