news | Saturday November 29, 2025

Crowd Source Named One of The Grind's Books of the Year

Crowd Source, the latest poetry collection by multi-award winning poet and educator Cecily Nicholson, has been named one of The Grind’s books of the year! Crowd Source focuses on the habits, communications, and twice-daily migration of the crows who stitch across Vancouver’s skies.

The Grind says of Crowd Source: “Here, 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.”

Check out all of The Grind’s favourite books of the year here.