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No Lines in Nature is a phrase taken from Jacques Rivette’s film La Belle Noiseuse based on a short story by Balzac where an aging painter contemplates the significance of art and life. The artist in the film says, “the human body is not contained within the limits of a line…A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature,
everything is solid.” In this debut poetry collection, Joe Enns breaks life into pieces line by line then realigns the images like a stained-glass window. Rooted in the vivid scenery of British Columbia, from the Fraser River to the Okanagan Valley to Vancouver Island, Enns connects patterns of impressions that encompass a life.
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Joe’s poetry has been published in
GUSTS, and
Nonfiction publications
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Joe’s fiction was short-listed for the 2024 Malahat Review Novella Prize and FreeFall’s 2020 Prose and Poetry Contest.
Awards include the Meadowlarks Award (VIU 2021) and the Pat Bevan Scholarship in Creative Writing – Poetry (VIU 2020).
Joe has a BA in Creative Writing from Vancouver Island University and a BSc in Ecological Restoration from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Currently, Joe’s day job includes fisheries work as an Aquatic Biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada where he shifts his skills towards technical and academic writing, publishing technical reports and papers on Pacific salmon and habitat. Joe’s fisheries experience also includes sonar counts for Fraser River sockeye and pinks, stream habitat mapping, electrofishing, and snorkel counts.