Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of the crows who, aside from fledgling season, fly across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk.

This durational study echoes their flight, occasionally touching down to reflect on human-crow interactions. Attentive to the great intelligence and perspectives of corvid and non-human communications, the poems in Crowd Source engage historical and strategic examples of how these songbirds gather and disperse.

Continuing Nicholson's engagement with the contemporary climate crisis, social movements, and Black diasporic relations, this is a text for all concerned about practising ecological futurities befitting corvid sensibilities, caw.

(From Talonbooks)

Crowd Source is available in April 2025.

Cecily Nicholson is an author and professor who has published five books, including From the Poplars, which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Wayside Sang, which received the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. She is involved in municipal, artist-run centers and community-based arts organizing, education and advocacy. Nicholson is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is the 2024/2025 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley.