Penelope Shuttle Explained
Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English poet.
Life
Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She wrote her first novel at the age of 20. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1932–2003) and they have a daughter, Zoe.[1] They wrote the prose books The Wise Wound (1978), a non-fiction book about menstruation by Shuttle and Redgrove, and its sequel, Alchemy for Women.
The Victor Gollancz Ltd. publishers file for the publication The Wise Wound is held in University College Cork Library as the Shuttle-Redgrove Collection. This collection was acquired in May 2019 and consists of correspondences, contemporary reviews of The Wise Wound and letters from various individuals praising the work, including the poets Ted Hughes and D.M. Thomas.[2]
Shuttle is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group, founded in 1972.[3]
Awards
- 1974 Eric Gregory Award
- 1995 Glen Rybertt Award
- 2007 Cholmondeley Award
- Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Works
Poetry collections
- Book: Nostalgia Neurosis: & Other Poems. S. Albert's P.. 1968.
- Book: The Songbook of the Snow, and Other Poems. Janus Press. 1974 .
- Book: The Orchard Upstairs. Oxford University Press. Oxford . 1980 . 978-0-19-211938-4 .
- Book: Child-Stealer. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1983 . 978-0-19-211956-8 .
- Book: The Lion from Rio. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1986. 978-0-19-281974-1.
- Book: Adventures with my Horse. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1988. 978-0-19-282218-5.
- Book: Taxing the Rain. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1992. 978-0-19-282993-1.
- Book: Building a City for Jamie. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1996. 978-0-19-282517-9 .
- Book: Selected Poems. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1998. 978-0-19-288076-5.
- Book: A Leaf out of his Book. Carcanet. Manchester. 1999. 978-1-903039-00-7 .
- Book: Redgrove's Wife. Bloodaxe Books. 2006. 978-1-85224-734-8 .
- Book: Sandgrain and Hourglass. Bloodaxe Books. 2010.
- Book: Four portions of everything on the menu for M'sieur Monet!. Indigo Dreams Publishing. 2016. 978-1-910834-21-3 .
Fiction
- Book: An Excusable Vengeance (novella in New Writers 6). Calder & Boyars. 1967 .
- Book: All the Usual Hours of Sleeping. Calder & Boyars. 1969 .
- Book: Jesusa (novella). Granite Press. 1971 .
- Book: Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree. Calder & Boyars. 1973. 0-7145-0939-6 .
- Book: Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden. Marion Boyars. 1977. 978-0-7145-2560-0 .
- Book: The Mirror of the Giant. Marion Boyars. 1980. 978-0-7145-2679-9 .
- Book: The Penelope Shuttle Omnibus. Verbivoracious Press. 2015. 9789810959821 .
Prose books
- Book: The Wise Wound . Peter Redgrove. Gollancz. London. 1978. 978-0-399-90024-2 .
- Book: Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle. Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove. Rider. 1995. 978-0-7126-9859-7 .
External links
Notes and References
- News: How we met: 47: Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-47-penelope-shuttle-and-peter-redgrove-1540611.html . 25 May 2022 . subscription . live. ESTHER OXFORD. 16 August 1992. The Independent.
- Web site: Rooney . John . UCC Library: Shuttle-Redgrove Collection: Home . 2024-01-24 . libguides.ucc.ie . en.
- http://uk.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6502 Poetry International profile
