'Provocative and absorbing.' Sarah Bower, National Association of Writers in Education 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.