Canadian Poets Series #28 : Cecily Nicholson

Cecily Nicholson is the author of five books and a past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC and was the 2025 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at UC Berkeley. She has held multiple residencies, such as the Ellen and Warren Tallman writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (2016-17) and as writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor (2021). Poems and excerpts from longer works can be found online via Planet Earth Poetry, SFU Galleries, Jacket2 and the Poetry Foundation. Her most recent work, Crowd Source, follows the diurnal travels of crows in metro Vancouver. See reviews of Crowd Source via Marguerite Pigeon at The BC Review, Phinder Dulai at Rungh, Garry Thomas Morse at Jacket2 and Stephen Collis at Jacket2. Recent interviews include one conducted by Rob Taylor for Read Local BC, the Future Ecologies podcast [time stamp: 0037.51] in conversation with DM Bradford, Jordan Abel and SF Ho, Christina Cooke at Room magazine, and in conversation with Jules Boykoff for Jacket2.