Penelope Shuttle
{{short description|British poet (born 1947)}}
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|name=Penelope Shuttle
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|birth_place=Staines, Middlesex, England
|occupation=Poet
|nationality=English
|awards=Cholmondeley Award (2007)
|spouse=Peter Redgrove (died 2003)
|children=1
}}
Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English poet and author. She has published fifteen volumes of poetry, plus two selected volumes, and six works of fiction. She has won the Eric Gregory Award and the Cholmondeley Award and has been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also known for The Wise Wound, a non-fictional work on menstruation, which she wrote with her late husband Peter Redgrove.
Life
Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1932–2003) and they have a daughter, Zoe.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-47-penelope-shuttle-and-peter-redgrove-1540611.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-47-penelope-shuttle-and-peter-redgrove-1540611.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=How we met: 47: Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove | author=ESTHER OXFORD| date=16 August 1992| work=The Independent}}
Shuttle is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group, founded in 1972.[http://uk.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6502 Poetry International profile] She is a Hawthornden Fellow, and a tutor for the Poetry School.
Career
Shuttle wrote her first novel at the age of 20. She published her debut, the novella, An Excusable Vengeance, in 1967. She has since published five more novellas and novels, as well as an omnibus collection.
Shuttle is better known for her poetry, having published fifteen original volumes and two selected volumes.{{cite web |last1=O'Brien |first1=Sean |title=Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 by Penelope Shuttle - review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/28/unsent-penelope-shuttle-review |website=The Guardian |access-date=29 April 2025 |date=28 Dec 2012}} She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1974.{{cite web |title=Penelope Shuttle |url=https://poetryarchive.org/poet/penelope-shuttle/ |website=The Poetry Archive |access-date=29 April 2025}} Her first selected volume was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 1998. Her ninth volume, Redgrove's Wife, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2007 Cholmondeley Award.{{cite web |title=Shuttle, Penelope, Born 1947 |url=https://archives.shef.ac.uk/agents/people/386 |website=University of Sheffield |access-date=29 April 2025}}{{cite web |title=Ann Born Prize 2013 |url=https://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/anne-born-prize/the-anne-born-prize-2013/ |website=The Poetry Society |access-date=29 April 2025}} Sandgrain and Hourglass was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2010.{{cite web |title=Penelope Shuttle |url=https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/penelope-shuttle |website=Bloodaxe Books |access-date=29 April 2025}} Her collection Lyonesse was longlisted for the 2022 Laurel Prize, an award for environmental or nature poetry established by Simon Armitage.{{cite web |title=2022 Winners |url=https://laurelprize.com/2022-winners/ |website=The Laurel Prize |access-date=1 May 2025}}
=The Wise Wound=
In 1978, Shuttle and her husband Peter Redgrove published a non-fiction book about menstruation, The Wise Wound.
The Victor Gollancz Ltd publishers file for 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.{{Cite web |last=Rooney |first=John |title=UCC Library: Shuttle-Redgrove Collection: Home |url=https://libguides.ucc.ie/ShuttleRedgroveCollection/home |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=libguides.ucc.ie |language=en}}
Shuttle and Redgrove published a sequel, Alchemy for Women, in 1995.
Awards
- 1974 Eric Gregory Award
- Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) Poetry Book Society Recommendation
- 2007 Cholmondeley Award
- Sandgrain and Hourglass (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Works
=Poetry collections=
- {{cite book| title=Nostalgia Neurosis: & Other Poems| publisher=S. Albert's P.| year=1968}}
- {{cite book| title=The Songbook of the Snow, and Other Poems| publisher=Janus Press| year=1974 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Orchard Upstairs| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford | year=1980 | isbn=978-0-19-211938-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=Child-Stealer| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford| year=1983 | isbn=978-0-19-211956-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Lion from Rio| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford| year=1986| isbn=978-0-19-281974-1| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780192819741}}
- {{cite book| title=Adventures with my Horse| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford| year=1988| isbn=978-0-19-282218-5| url=https://archive.org/details/adventureswithmy00pene}}
- {{cite book| title=Taxing the Rain| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford| year=1992| isbn=978-0-19-282993-1| url=https://archive.org/details/taxingrainoxford00pene}}
- {{cite book| title=Building a City for Jamie| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford| year=1996| isbn=978-0-19-282517-9 }}
- {{cite book| title=Selected Poems| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford| year=1998| isbn=978-0-19-288076-5| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780192880765}}
- {{cite book| title=A Leaf out of his Book| publisher=Carcanet| place=Manchester| year=1999| isbn=978-1-903039-00-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=Redgrove's Wife| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=2006| isbn=978-1-85224-734-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=Sandgrain and Hourglass| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=2010}}
- {{cite book| title=Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=2012 | isbn= 978-1852249502}}
- {{cite book| title=Four portions of everything on the menu for M'sieur Monet!| publisher=Indigo Dreams Publishing| year=2016|isbn=978-1-910834-21-3 }}
- {{cite book| title=Father Lear| publisher=Poetry Salzburg| year=2020|isbn=978-3-901993-79-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=Will you walk a little faster?| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=2017}}
- {{cite book| title=Lyonesse| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=2021}}
=Fiction=
- {{cite book| title=An Excusable Vengeance (novella in New Writers 6)| publisher=Calder & Boyars| year=1967 }}
- {{cite book| title=All the Usual Hours of Sleeping| publisher=Calder & Boyars| year=1969 }}
- {{cite book| title=Jesusa (novella)| publisher=Granite Press| year=1971 }}
- {{cite book| title=Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree| publisher=Calder & Boyars| date=1973| isbn=0-7145-0939-6 }}
- {{cite book| title=Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden| publisher=Marion Boyars| date=1977| isbn=978-0-7145-2560-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Mirror of the Giant| publisher=Marion Boyars| year=1980| isbn=978-0-7145-2679-9 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Penelope Shuttle Omnibus| publisher=Verbivoracious Press| year=2015| isbn=9789810959821 }}
=Prose books=
- {{cite book| title=The Wise Wound | author=Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove| publisher=Gollancz| place=London| year=1978| isbn=978-0-399-90024-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle| author=Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove| publisher=Rider| year=1995| isbn=978-0-7126-9859-7 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=18323 "The Wolf Interview: Penelope Shuttle", James Byrne, The Wolf, 10]
- [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1532 "Penelope Shuttle", The Poetry Archive]
- [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth569795E4143db1B15DGRv3EA9233 "Penelope Shuttle", The British council]
- [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/28/unsent-penelope-shuttle-review "Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 by Penelope Shuttle - review"], Sean O'Brien, The Guardian, 28 December 2012
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