Hallelujah for 50ft Women: Poems about Women's Relationship to their Bodies carcanet It's 1987 and Frankie Vah

It's 1987 and Frankie Vah gorges on love

but its luminous and unsettling poems richly repay the attention they demand

and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet

Take Hair houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist

Hallelujah for 50ft Women: Poems about Women's Relationship to their Bodies carcanet It's 1987 and Frankie VahRaving Beauties womens theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and professional learning curve. Hallelujah for 50ft Women is their third anthology of womens poetry. Their first book, In the Pink (The Womens Press), sold thousands and was reprinted six times. Our relationship to our bodies is affected by many things