Penelope Shuttle

Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is a British poet.

Life

Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She wrote her first novel at the age of 20.[1] She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall[1] 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 and its sequel, Alchemy for Women.

Shuttle is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group, founded in 1972.[2]

Awards
  • 1974 Eric Gregory Award
  • 2007 Cholmondeley Award
  • Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Works

Poetry collections
  • Nostalgia Neurosis: & Other Poems. S. Albert's P. 1968.
  • The Songbook of the Snow, and Other Poems. Janus Press. 1974.
  • The Orchard Upstairs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-19-211938-4.
  • Child-Stealer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-19-211956-8.
  • The Lion from Rio. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-281974-1.
  • Adventures with my Horse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-19-282218-5.
  • Taxing the Rain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-19-282993-1.
  • Building a City for Jamie. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-19-282517-9.
  • Selected Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-288076-5.
  • A Leaf out of his Book. Manchester: Carcanet. 1999. ISBN 978-1-903039-00-7.
  • Redgrove's Wife. Bloodaxe Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-85224-734-8.
  • Sandgrain and Hourglass. Bloodaxe Books. 2010.
  • Four portions of everything on the menu for M’sieur Monet!. Indigo Dreams Publishing. 2016. ISBN 978-1-910834-21-3.

Fiction
  • An Excusable Vengeance (novella in New Writers 6). Calder & Boyars. 1967.
  • All the Usual Hours of Sleeping. Calder & Boyars. 1969.
  • Jesusa (novella). Granite Press. 1971.
  • Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree. Calder & Boyars. 1973. ISBN 0-7145-0939-6.
  • Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden. Marion Boyars. 1977. ISBN 978-0-7145-2560-0.
  • The Mirror of the Giant. Marion Boyars. 1980. ISBN 978-0-7145-2679-9.
  • The Penelope Shuttle Omnibus. Verbivoracious Press. 2015. ISBN 9789810959821.

Prose books
  • Peter Redgrove (1978). The Wise Wound. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-399-90024-2.
  • Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove (1995). Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle. Rider. ISBN 978-0-7126-9859-7.

References
  1. ESTHER OXFORD (16 August 1992). "How we met: 47: Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove". The Independent.
  2. Poetry International profile
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