news | Sunday April 6, 2025

Crowd Source Has Landed!

Hold onto your feathers, folks, because Crowd Source by the award-winning poet and current Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley Cecily Nicholson has landed! 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.

An excerpt from Crowd Source:

“blooms of soot an everyday Newtonian wash
southern sky at dusk this city late summer

rooks taken flight in a low-end concert theory
of a widely distributed family

the designation of songbirds includes the position
of feet, unconcerned strides like no other

stride street hop lessons well in the anatomy
vocal areas moving as water sheds shores

onto Still Creek independent muscle controls
either side syrinx folds produce different sounds

in theory two different songs that is
two impressive vocal repertoires at the same time”

If you’d like to kick off your National Poetry Month with some tour de force poetry, pick up your caw-py of Crowd Source here.