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. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1932 – 2003) and they have a daughter, Zoe. 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.

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. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

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.
• . Verbivoracious Press. 2015. ISBN 9789810959821. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Text "title+The Penelope Shuttle Omnibus" ignored (help)

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.

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