Listening for the Crow’s Reply: Poetic Transcription, Emotionality, and More-Than-Human Relations

This article examines how poetic transcription can illuminate human–more-than-human relationality by foregrounding emotionality. Poetic transcription draws attention to the sensuous terrain—wind, insects, birds, and other more-than-human presences—that shapes research encounters but is often rendered invisible. Attending to these presences disrupts anthropocentric assumptions and deepens response-ability, the ethical obligation to attend to multiple others with whom we share our lives. Drawing on interview data from an urban farm, I show how poetic transcription surfaces ecological emotions while highlighting uneven conditions in which these emotions emerge. Poetic transcription offers a tool for rethinking relationality and emotionality through context-specific human–more-than-human entanglements.