Penelope Shuttle

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

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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

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Poetry collections

Fiction

Prose books

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References

  1. 1 2 3 ESTHER OXFORD (16 August 1992). "How we met: 47: Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
  2. Poetry International profile