Reviews

Imagined Spaces by Susan Nickalls, Emma Bolland, Kirsty Gunn, Graham Domke, Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Gabriel Josipovici, Linda Chown, Stephen Carruthers, Chris Arthur, Gail Low, Whitney McVeigh, Tomiwa Folorunso, Philip Lopate, Laurens Holm, Jane Macrae, Meaghan Delahunt, Kenny Taylor, Hamzah Hussain, Dai John, Stephanie Bishop, Duncan McLean, Fiona Stirling, Graham Johnston, Paul Noble

gilljames's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

This is a lovely book to hold and look at. It has an elegant cover and the paper is good quality.  The ink is pale and quiet. 
Despite some suggestion to the contrary by the editors and various contributors the writing feels more like creative non-fiction than essays. Each piece is on the whole well written and has a strong voice and this is what keeps you reading rather than the content of the essays.  
The formatting is odd.  More like web  formatting.  Not to industry or academic standard for print. There are extra lines between paragraphs.  All paragraphs are full out and the lines are ragged right. Is this eccentric? Is is effective? Is  it even deliberate? 
There are end notes but no notes added to the text. This doesn't make  it easy for the serious readers.  
There ares some surprising typos and grammatical mistakes for a volume of this nature.   If you can forgive these oddities it is worth a read.