Hallelujah for 50ft Women
eBook - ePub

Hallelujah for 50ft Women

poems about women's relationship to their bodies

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hallelujah for 50ft Women

poems about women's relationship to their bodies

About this book

Raving Beauties women's 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 women's poetry. Their first book, In the Pink (The Women's Press), sold thousands and was reprinted six times. Our relationship to our bodies is affected by many things including culture, religion, family, sex, hunger, pleasure and pain. This new anthology is inspired by a passionate desire to celebrate our bodies in a fully realised way, leaving Barbie's grotesque silent pliability in her box for good. Instead of pouting, our mouths have the power of language, our romantic fluttering hearts give and receive compassion, skin ages with grace when we see beauty in everything, a pierced belly button connects us to our ancestors and a belly needs to be strong before it's flat. This book has been selected from over a thousand submissions. New poets published here for the first time are proud to share this anthology with established writers such as Selima Hill, Kim Addonizio, Jackie Kay and Helen Dunmore. By revealing the complex depths of our relationships with our bodies Hallelujah for 50ft Women makes a much needed contribution to a compassionate understanding of our evolving selves. 'In their performances and anthologies Raving Beauties have done a great service to women writers' - Guardian. ''brilliant, actually' - Observer.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781780371559
eBook ISBN
9781780371566
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Horse
  7. Genetics
  8. In Praise of My Legs:
  9. The Magic of the Foot
  10. Wearing Sexuality
  11. The Mermaid in the dime museum
  12. Her Mother Hides in the Wardrobe
  13. Katie’s end of week routine
  14. Three Ways of Recovering a Body
  15. Grandmother
  16. Ventriloquist
  17. Bright Day
  18. Armour
  19. If
  20. Nude
  21. I put a pen in my cunt once
  22. On New Year’s Eve
  23. He Sees Me
  24. Bulimic
  25. Underneath Our Skirts
  26. Clear Cut
  27. What Do Women Want?
  28. The Ugly Daughter
  29. Biosphere
  30. A Clearing
  31. Pomegranates
  32. Miscarriage, Midwinter
  33. Churched
  34. The only body I have
  35. Chocolate
  36. Does My Bum Look Big in This?
  37. Invitation
  38. Regular Checks Advised
  39. To a Friend for Her Naked Breasts
  40. Trichotillomania
  41. Mobile Gallery of Me.
  42. Busy Dying
  43. A Room of Her Own
  44. Bowled, again
  45. And then he said: When did your arms get so big?
  46. High school
  47. Utility Room
  48. Marks
  49. Good Friday
  50. The Woman Who Talked to Her Teeth
  51. Friendship
  52. Flesh
  53. This Woman
  54. Embarrassed
  55. For Lucy
  56. Room 204 (Double for Single Use)
  57. Pair Bond
  58. The Beast Is Dead, Long Live the Beast
  59. For Her, a Different Skin
  60. Refined to bone
  61. Unmade
  62. Nuptial Song
  63. Rock ’n’ Roll Mamma
  64. Wolves
  65. Madame’s Menu
  66. Dowry
  67. The Green
  68. Anuva Bun inee Ovun
  69. Rape Joke
  70. The Shave
  71. Trunk of fig tree from Ses Rossells
  72. Where It Hurts
  73. Question
  74. Infertility
  75. Bog Child
  76. Meditation
  77. Country cousin
  78. The Liberator
  79. Leaving My Hands Behind
  80. Cunts and Cocks and Balls
  81. Animal (1975)
  82. Breaking Fish Necks
  83. Rutting
  84. In Praise of Footbinding
  85. Honour killing
  86. The Dowry
  87. Five Years of Growth
  88. Darling Kisses
  89. White Asparagus
  90. genderality
  91. Vintage
  92. A Fallow Blooming
  93. Antidote to the Fear of Death
  94. Peach Season
  95. Picnic
  96. Falling down, falling down
  97. The Room of Coughing
  98. Dress
  99. Poem at Sixty
  100. Recognition
  101. Self-Portrait, Rear View
  102. Stella and Flavia
  103. Longbarrow
  104. The Doll’s House
  105. Achieving the Lotus Gait
  106. Recipe for a Saint
  107. A God-Problem
  108. Pamela Asks the Right Questions
  109. The Bed
  110. To the vagina
  111. Cunt Artist Boyfriend
  112. the trials and tribulations of a well-endowed woman
  113. Across the street
  114. Kinky Hair Blues
  115. Hollywood Biltmore Hotel
  116. Women’s Blood
  117. Cherry Blossoms
  118. Stained
  119. Petals
  120. Blood
  121. Down There
  122. Horses Sally or Ivy Blue
  123. Fanny Farts
  124. Jardi d’Eros, Barcelona
  125. For the Punters
  126. Trinity
  127. Happiness
  128. Could it be
  129. My Black Triangle
  130. Reading My Skin
  131. Full-length Mirror
  132. On Nudity
  133. I Think of You and Think of Skin
  134. No, Mon Amour
  135. God Save me from women with Choppy Bobs
  136. Sexted
  137. Not Andromeda
  138. The Blossom Queen
  139. How to Make Love Not Like a Porn Star
  140. homage to my hips
  141. Woman Solstice
  142. Descendant
  143. Professor
  144. After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
  145. Bless me Father
  146. I’ll Be a Wicked Old Woman
  147. to my last period
  148. Hallelujah for 50ft Women
  149. On seeing the Furies in the sky
  150. Deaths of Flowers
  151. Acknowledgements
  152. Index of Poets
  153. About Raving Beauties
  154. Copyright