HARROWINGS

Name: HARROWINGS
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781772014051
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By Cecily Nicholson

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Summary

HARROWINGS explores the intersections of Black intellectual and art history with agriculture, blending memoir and activism. Set mainly in rural spaces, the poems reflect the poet’s upbringing on a farm and experiences volunteering with formerly incarcerated individuals in a local agricultural initiative during the pandemic. The work critically addresses food security movements and colonial legacies tied to farming, confronting traditional and supremacist narratives through reflections on biome, plants, and soil. Despite health challenges, the collection advances a vision of abolitionist futures grounded in care and practical labour such as sowing and pruning.
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Ideal for readers interested in poetry that intertwines social justice, food sovereignty, Black history, and environmental themes.

A poetic study of biome, water, soil, seed, and race.

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Set mainly in the rural, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet's childhood growing up on a farm, as well as from more recent pandemic experiences volunteering for a local agricultural enterprise led by people who were formerly incarcerated.

Considering movements organising for food security and related, resurgent practices, HARROWINGS also contends with "the farm" as a tract of colonial advance. Tropes of tradition and supremacy are confronted in this study of biome, plants, and soil.

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.

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Praised by the Winnipeg Free Press for navigating history, memory, and activism where food, farm, race, and colonialism intersect. Rungh Magazine commends Nicholson's mastery of poetic language throughout the collection.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781772014051

Publisher: Talon Books,Canada

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 December 2022

Country: Canada

Imprint: Talon Books,Canada

Edition: New edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 138g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Cecily Nicholson Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Cecily Nicholson is rural, small-town Ontario via Toronto and South Bend, relocated to the Pacific Coast now almost two decades. On Musqueam-, Squamish-, and Tsleil-Waututh-occupied lands known as Vancouver, she worked for many years in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. A part of the Joint Effort prison abolitionist group and a member of the Research Ethics Board for Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Cecily was also the 2017 Ellen Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Triage, From the Poplars, winner of the 2015 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Wayside Sang, winner of the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Poetry.