Beautifully designed and produced, the anthology is “like a conversation in your own room” - the perfect accompanying read, then, to the quiet in these socially isolated times. The book sets out to ask the ways in which our experiences can be really thought about, felt and/or reflected upon in words and images, exploring thus "imagined spaces"—between the known and the unknown.

"An adventure, of sorts, this is" we had both said, thinking about RRS Discovery moored here at Dundee — a gloriously rigged and sea-ready vessel with its high mast and narrow quarters that took Scott and Shackleton to Antarctica, for all the world as though it would take only a high wind and a breath of imagination for it to snap its rigging, and set off down the Tay again towards the wide open seas...

How might we bring into words, places that exist as imagined, half-known, remembered or dreamt about... and to have those same words do the job of stone and lime, window-glass, doorways, stairs and rooms? Such is the task Peter Davidson has set himself here, and he answers these questions and more with his customary fineness of expression, and with grace and elegance.