Join Flying Books for the launch of Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity, the new collection of essays by Gary Barwin.

There will be a reading and Gary will be in conversation with acclaimed poet and critic Adam Sol.

Best known for his national bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates, which won the Leacock Medal and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and was been shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Governor-General's Literary Award and was been longlisted for Canada Reads, Gary Barwin has written poems, novels and books for children. He’s composed music, created multimedia art and performed around the world. Now he has turned his talented pen to essays. In Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity Barwin thinks deeply about big ideas: story and identity; art and death; how we communicate and why we dream. From his childhood home in Ireland to his long-time home in Hamilton, Barwin shares the thoughts that keep him up at night (literally) and the ideas that keep him creating. Filled with witty asides, wise stories and a generosity of spirit that is unmistakable, these are essays that readers will turn to again and again.