In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove
welcomed EJ
as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces.
In 1965 KN
was included in a 24-page poetry anthology, Moments of Truth, published by Roy Lewis
at the Keepsake Press
at Richmond in Surrey, along with nineteen other poets including Thom Gunn
Textual Features
Kathleen Raine
Studies in comparative religion were a staple. The first number included poetry by Raine herself, David Gascoyne
, Peter Redgrove
, and Vernon Watkins
, and visionary art by Cecil Collins
.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, p. 25.
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Residence
Penelope Shuttle
By the age of twenty-one she had made a crucial move, from the London area to Frome in Somerset. She lived there until she joined Peter Redgrove
at Falmouth in Cornwall.
Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
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Reception
Penelope Shuttle
PS
has recorded work for the Poetry Archive
, with the comment: In my poetry I give primacy to the breath.
The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do.
Hobsbaum, Philip. “Peter Redgrove: poet known as ’scientist of the strange’”. The Independent.
Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Shuttle
In 1970 PS
began to live with Peter Redgrove
, an already distinguished and highly productive poet fifteen years her senior, whom she had met the previous year (while his first marriage was near its...
Intertextuality and Influence
Penelope Shuttle
This was panned in the Times Literary Supplement by Jane Miller
. She saw it as overwritten, disfigured by the writer's passion for words, their sounds rather than their meanings. Never was a single adjective...
Material Conditions of Writing
Penelope Shuttle
After they moved in together in 1970, PS
and Peter Redgrove
established collaborative habits. They read the working drafts of each other's poems, and wrote together—not at home but on park benches and in cafes...
Textual Production
Penelope Shuttle
Peter Redgrove
and PS
published The Terrors of Dr. Treviles as a collaborative romance, by late October 1974.
“Saving sensations”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3790, p. 1206.
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Redgrove, Peter, and Penelope Shuttle. The Terrors of Dr. Treviles: A Romance. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Literary responses
Penelope Shuttle
Gay Clifford
, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, offered some readings common in reviews of the work of PS
and Peter Redgrove
, about a prose poem of Jung
ian archetypes, and...
Dedications
Penelope Shuttle
The book is dedicated to Peter Redgrove
and the last page is dated April 1971.
Shuttle, Penelope. Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden. Marion Boyars.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Shuttle
PS
married the man she had lived with for a decade, her fellow poet Peter Redgrove
. He was also a novelist and author of non-fictional prose.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production
Penelope Shuttle
Shuttle and Redgrove
contributed jointly to Michelene Wandor
's On Gender and Writing, 1983. Their contribution takes the form, unique in the volume, of a dialogue with Wandor in which the couple speak in unison.
Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Shuttle
Peter Redgrove
, poet, novelist, and husband of PS
, died at their home at Falmouth in Cornwall at the age of seventy-one.
Hobsbaum, Philip. “Peter Redgrove: poet known as ’scientist of the strange’”. The Independent.
Textual Production
Penelope Shuttle
Though Philip Hobsbaum
's obituary for Peter Redgrove
mentions The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense, 1987 (about the invisible forces that surround us and which are shut off by the prejudices of our...
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Texts
Shuttle, Penelope, and Peter Redgrove. Alchemy for Women: personal transformation through dreams and the female cycle. Rider, 1995.
Redgrove, Peter, and Penelope Shuttle. The Glass Cottage : a Nautical Romance. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
Redgrove, Peter, and Penelope Shuttle. The Hermaphrodite Album. Fuller d’Arch Smith, 1973.
Redgrove, Peter, and Penelope Shuttle. The Terrors of Dr. Treviles: A Romance. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
Shuttle, Penelope, and Peter Redgrove. The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman. Victor Gollancz, 1978.