Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English poet.

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]

Awards

• 1974 Eric Gregory Award
• 1995 Glen Rybertt 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.
• Four portions of everything on the menu for M'sieur Monet!. Indigo Dreams Publishing. 2016. ISBN 978-1-910834-21-3.

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.
• The Penelope Shuttle Omnibus. Verbivoracious Press. 2015. ISBN 9789810959821.

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.