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

External links

• "The Wolf Interview: Penelope Shuttle", James Byrne, The Wolf, 10
• "Penelope Shuttle", The Poetry Archive
• "Penelope Shuttle", The British council
• "Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 by Penelope Shuttle - review", Sean O'Brien, The Guardian, 28 December 2012