Crowd Source

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Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of crows who, aside from fledgling season, journey across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk. Continuing Nicholson’s attention to contemporary climate crisis, social movements, and Black diasporic relations, this is a text for all concerned with practising ecological futurities befitting corvid sensibilities.

AUTHOR

Cecily Nicholson

Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books and a past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. She was the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University and the Write- in-Residence at the University of Windsor. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and collaborates with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity.

Reviews

Nicholsons book delivers Heather Ramsay The British Columbia Review

Crowd Source offers a fluid graceful perspective on the importance of gathering moving and persisting Alexandra Oliver Literary Review of Canada

Nicholson focuses her own lyric conversation through climate colonialism and urban crows her small points and moments accumulate across great distances holding each moment in relation detailed and delicate fueled by research observation and study but propelled by language rob mclennan

Anyone whos ever marvelled at the twicedaily crow migration in Metro Vancouver will be enchanted by Crowd Source Sheri Radford BC Living

Nicholson applies her capacious multidimensional imagination to the covenly world of crows Her language dances like light on water moving from corvid facts to industrial history from formal play to anticolonial instruction ever restless and shimmering Nicholson employs mischief as a texture of movement collective responsibility as a pathway to embodiment This book is not meant to be just read but practised The Grind