Exciting and provocative essays in a collection that is fun, entertaining, and deeply serious. In words and images that explore our environment, culture and architecture, that reflect on literary and artistic creation, mortality, mental health, depression, the North (as a place both real and imagined) and education, Imagined Spaces returns the essay to its original activity of having a go, trying and weighing something out, taking a risk.

GAIL LOW & KIRSTY GUNN: Tracing Lines ...Essaying For Our Times; STEPHANIE BISHOP: Songs I Can't Play; CHRIS ARTHUR & GRAHAM JOHNSTON: Line Drawing; GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI: On Being Hit on the Head by a Poem; LORENS HOLM & PAUL NOBLE: Politics of Small Spaces; SUSAN NICKALLS; MEAGHAN DELAHUNT: Life in the Bardo: Dying, Death and the Imagination; STEPHEN CARRUTHERS & FIONA STIRLING: You by Me: Writing Depression; JANE MACRAE: A Voyage Out in Education; DUNCAN MCLEAN & KENNY TAYLOR: The Flicker of North; WHITNEY MCVEIGH: The Strange Performance of Ink on Paper; TOMIWA FOLORUNSO & HAMZAH HUSSAIN: Home, Ile, Ghar, Hame; DAI JOHN: Between the Lines; PHILIP LOPATE: My Love Affair with the Essay; EMMA BOLLAND & ELIZABETH CHAKRABARTY: The Fiction of the Essay: Of Abstraction, Texts, Communication, and Loss; GRAHAM DOMKE: A Leaf Out of Someone's Book; LINDA E. CHOWN: The Art of the Intransitive Essay; Notes & Bibliography; Contributors; Acknowledgements