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.
About the Author :
Cecily Nicholson is the author of five books, including From the Poplars, recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Wayside Sang, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. Her collaborative practice spans municipal, artist-run centres, and community-based arts organizing, education, and advocacy. She is an assistant professor at the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and the 2024/2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.
Review :
"Nicholson's 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 who’s ever marvelled at the twice-daily crow migration in Metro Vancouver will be enchanted by Crowd Source." —Sheri Radford, BC Living
"Nicholson applies her capacious, multi-dimensional 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 anti-colonial 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
