Penelope Shuttle

Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947 in Staines, Middlesex) is a British poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Bibliography 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Fiction 3.3 Prose 4 References 5 External links

Life

Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20."^[1] Her home is in Falmouth, Cornwall^[1] since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe.^[1] They wrote a prose work together, The Wise Wound also published in America, and its sequel, Alchemy for Women.

Also she is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group (1972 -),^[2] and appeared at the 2008 StAnza Poetry festival.^[3]

Awards

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

Bibliography

• "Outgrown". The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=4675. 

Poetry

• 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 9780192119384. 
• Child-Stealer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. ISBN 9780192119568. 
• The Lion from Rio. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1986. ISBN 9780192819741. 
• Adventures with my Horse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1988. ISBN 9780192822185. 
• Taxing the Rain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 9780192829931. 
• Building a City for Jamie. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. ISBN 9780192825179. 
• Selected Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998. ISBN 9780192880765. 
• A Leaf out of his Book. Manchester: Carcanet. 1999. ISBN 9781903039007. 
• Redgrove's Wife. Bloodaxe Books. 2006. ISBN 9781852247348. 
• Sandgrain and Hourglass. Bloodaxe Books. 2010. ISBN 978185228823. 

Fiction

• All the usual hours of sleeping: a novel. Calder & Boyars. 1969. 
• Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree. Calder & Boyars. 1973. ISBN 0714509396. 
• Rainsplitter in the zodiac garden. M. Boyars. 1977. ISBN 9780714525600. 
• The Mirror of the Giant. M. Boyars. 1980. ISBN 9780714526799. 

Prose

• Peter Redgrove (1978). The Wise Wound. London: Gollancz. ISBN 9780399900242. 
• Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove (1995). Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle. Rider. ISBN 9780712698597. 

References

External links

• "The Wolf Interview: Penelope Shuttle", James Byrne, The Wolf, 10
• "Penelope Shuttle", The Poetry Archive
• "Penelope Shuttle", The British council

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Name	Shuttle, Penelope
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Date of birth	12 May 1947
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