The autumn 2021 issue of The Poetry Review has artist Kate Dehler’s thoughtful poetry hound on the front cover, and inside, new poems by Rachael Allen, Ian Duhig, Sylvia Legris, Shane McCrae, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Philip Gross, Kathryn Maris, Sheri Benning, Edward Doegar and more, alongside translations of Goliarda Sapienza, Kristina Toth and Melissanthi. There are searching essays by Mina Gorji on Coleridge, Oswald, Wordsworth and Hadfield; Natalya Anderson on Twyla Tharp and Sharon Olds; and...
La Fabrica is one of Ricardo Bofill’s most iconoclastic creations. A former cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona, serendipitously discovered while driving, the building became the centre of the late Catalan architect’s life, serving both as his home and as the headquarters of his practice since 1973. Here, Ricardo created a world of his own, exposing the concrete forms from beneath years of dust and smoke, encouraging nature back onto the structure, and fine-tuning the balance between...