Creekstone Press - The Enpipe Line: 70,000 km of poetry written in resistance to the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal

Creekstone Press Publications

The Enpipe Line: 70,000 km of poetry written in resistance to the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal

Description: 178 pages, 9X6 inches, perfect bound

ISBN: 978-0-9783195-6-4

Price: $18

The Enpipe Line goes dream vs. dream with Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines. If built, these 1,170 kilometre pipelines will carry tars sands oil and its poisonous by-products across more than 700 streams and rivers between Alberta and the BC port of Kitimat. In Kitimat, crude oil would be pumped into supertankers for export, threatening the fragile coastal ecosystem with a major spill. Originally conceived as a 1,170 kilometre-long collaborative line of poetry to match the length of the proposed pipelines, The Enpipe Line has grown to over 70,000 kilometres. Its community of poets comes from all ages and walks of life: woodworkers, painters, environmental campaigners, single parents, professors, children. This book, like the pipeline it opposes, outlines a dream. But, unlike Enbridge’s proposal, The Enpipe Line represents the shared desire of living community: that the Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal never see the light of day.

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Reviews

Laura Moss in Canadian Literature:

"The Enpipe Line collaboration beautifully illustrates the branch of Canadian poetry that has swung away from the individual act of writing about nature to a kind of collaborative activism possible…"
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Emily Davidson:

"One doesn’t need to dig too deep these days to strike oil. Across the country, the words Enbridge, pipeline, and tar sands have spilled into the media, erupted across Twitter…"
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Tyler McCreary in Rabble.ca:

"A recently released volume from Creekstone Press, The Enpipe Line, presents a poetic manifestation of resistance. Written in opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines and similar projects around the world,…"
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Derek Beaulieu, Visual Poetry editor, UBUWeb:

"With The Enpipe Line, poets draw a line in the sand and enact their politics. No longer is the landscape something wistfully elegized; it is the line where poets say…"
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Fred Wah, Canada's poet laureate:

"What is so poignant about The Enpipe Line is not its length (over 70,000 km) or its capacity (barrels of words per day, the poem as tanker) but, quite simply,…"
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