When photographer Maribel Longueira heard the first sounds of the pickaxe, it was clear to her: the Papagaio was coming down. Or rather: the Papagaio was being pulled down and with it a fragment of the city that many A Coruña women did not want to look at.

The working class neighbourhood, the working class neighbourhood, the neighbourhood of the whores and other exploited workers had to make way for a mass of concrete and pretensions. The city of the good people devoured what was not worth it. Maribel's finely tuned intuition led her to document, camera in hand, the decline of a tempo and a geography of her own, domestic, gloriously prosaic.

And with the images collected, she invited several poets to add the necessary words. The initial idea was for this to be a choral, collective work. But Luísa Villalta, one of those invited, arrived at the door with a rosary of poems, a gem for each image.