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Despite episodic and chronic illness, and by way of practical tasks such as sowing, pruning, and watering, the poetry advances with love towards abolitionist futures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743458140433,"sku":"NGR9781772014051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51050895343889,"sku":"NIN9781772014051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52471946182929,"sku":"NLS9781772014051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52940144443665,"sku":"CIN1772014052G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1772014052.jpg?v=1751058838"},{"product_id":"triage-book-cecily-nicholson-9780889226579","title":"Triage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a world where the corporate iron fist clad in the velvet glove of the state has appropriated all that is authentic and authoritative in language, there seems little left for us to say to each other. Yet against the determination of borders, capital, criminalization and violence, stigmatized bodies also remember patterns, history, possibility and solidarity. \u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e attempts an ordered, critical response to the surges of overlapping ­manufactured crises that perpetuate the conditions and symptoms of our public and private disentitlements.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the increasingly marginalized and criminalized language of protest and resistance, these poems present a polyvocal narrative of human communities struggling at the brutal margins of the neoliberalized state. \u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e acknowledges and legitimizes dialogical practices of organizing for food, shelter, mobility, access and voice grounded in a global network of specific communities and movements. It addresses the resilience of people refusing disposability in these highly contested zones; articulates their commonalities in their struggle to take back the garish interventions of commercial language and enterprise in their lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The routes to the urban centre from rural, suburban and reserve communities are shared experiences articulated by many of the poems'' characters. Their displacement has concentrated and \"naturalized\" their entrenchment at the physical margins of cities and turned habit and need into specific areas of surveillance, where low income means risk, focusing primarily on the particular conditions of women caught in the everyday grind at the mercy of the propertied.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Accustomed to framing that which simultaneously victimizes as it offers assistance, \u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e acknowledges a powerful legacy of women''s creative resistance to everyday physical and systemic violence. It understands the costs and remembers the losses as it sorts through the rubble of ­language to salvage a redefinition of beauty and reify a meaningful aesthetic. After loss, hurt, survival and recovery, more is warranted, and more is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ecIn a world where the corporate iron fist clad in the velvet glove of the state has appropriated all that is authentic and authoritative in language, there seems little left for us to say to each other. Yet against the determination of borders, capital, criminalization and violence, stigmatized bodies also remember patterns, history, possibility and solidarity. \u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e attempts an ordered, critical response to the surges of overlapping ­manufactured crises that perpetuate the conditions and symptoms of our public and private disentitlements.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the increasingly marginalized and criminalized language of protest and resistance, these poems present a polyvocal narrative of human communities struggling at the brutal margins of the neoliberalized state. \u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e acknowledges and legitimizes dialogical practices of organizing for food, shelter, mobility, access and voice grounded in a global network of specific communities and movements. 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Their displacement has concentrated and \"naturalized\" their entrenchment at the physical margins of cities and turned habit and need into specific areas of surveillance, where low income means risk, focusing primarily on the particular conditions of women caught in the everyday grind at the mercy of the propertied.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Accustomed to framing that which simultaneously victimizes as it offers assistance, \u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e acknowledges a powerful legacy of women''s creative resistance to everyday physical and systemic violence. It understands the costs and remembers the losses as it sorts through the rubble of ­language to salvage a redefinition of beauty and reify a meaningful aesthetic. 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This is a poetic account of economy travel on North American roadways, across Peace and Ambassador bridges and through the Fleetway tunnel, above and beneath Great Lake rivers between nation states. Nicholson reimagines the trajectories of her birth father and his labour as it criss-crossed these borders in a study that engages the automobile object, its industry, roadways and hospitality, through and beyond the Great Lakes region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngaging a range of discursive fields to form the metrics of this project, she is interested in the intersection of various artistic practices and how being in relation to them can lend dimension to page and text-based efforts. Consider Charles Campbell's Transporter project, begun initially as a visual investigation of the phenomenon of forced migration, or Camille Turner's various \"sonic walks\" which present narratives that explore the complexities of Black life in Canada amid a \"landscape of forgetting\" Black history, and Khari McClelland's embrace of music as a \"transportation device\" uncovering the experiences of fugitive Blacks crossing into Canada and a breadth of practice concerning borders and movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book was once in the fields and frequented bars. It rolls out of factories onto roads travelling north across the border and returning again to some understanding of home. There are passengers and possessions - travelling musicians - memories of the Caribbean - brothers determined by border crossings - daughters reassembled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51051310416145,"sku":"NIN9781772011821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820970340625,"sku":"NLS9781772011821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1772011827.jpg?v=1751153068"},{"product_id":"crowd-source-book-cecily-nicholson-9781772016581","title":"Crowd Source","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrowd Source parallels the daily migration of crows who, aside from fledgling season, journey across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk. 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Guarded by water from the city of New Westminster's bustling industrial and shipping district, Poplar Island is lush and unspoken, but storied. It is the traditional territory of the Qayqayt peoples. Made into property, a parcel of land belonging to the \"New Westminster and Brownsville Indians,\" it is the location of one of British Columbia's first Indian Reserves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Polar Island is a landscape marred by colonization, where Indigenous smallpox victims from the south coast were forced into quarantine, substandard care, and burial. Once their peoples were decimated and the land taken, wrangled and exchanged between levels of government the trees were clear-cut for industry, including shipbuilding during the First World War and booming anchorage for local sawmills. From the Poplars is the poetic outcome of archival research and of keeping an ear to the ground - of listening to the stories of an earth scoured by colonization, inequality, and extraction. 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