Overlapping interests -- young writers, the urban landscape and subversive art -- guided the Toronto's Steel Bananas art collective in producing GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose. The book's form, content and process were also inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's rhizome theory, where people and ideas are encouraged to be non-hierarchical and non-linear. Botanically, rhizomes grow horizontally, and their offshoots can begin and end anywhere.