Penelope Shuttle

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Penelope Shuttle
Born (1947-05-12) 12 May 1947 (age 77)
Staines, Middlesex, England
OccupationPoet
NationalityEnglish
Notable awards Cholmondeley Award (2007)
Spouse Peter Redgrove (died 2003)
Children1

Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English 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 (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]

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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. Rooney, John. "UCC Library: Shuttle-Redgrove Collection: Home". libguides.ucc.ie. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  3. Poetry International profile