Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...
Dedications
Penelope Shuttle
The slim volume, whose cover reproduces a picture of a horse from Mughal India, saddled but riderless, was one of the series Oxford Poets. It is dedicated to PS
's husband
and daughter....
Dedications
Penelope Shuttle
PS
published, again with Oxford University Press
, another Oxford Poets volume entitled Taxing the Rain, dedicated to her husband
and daughter..
The title reflects the idea that many of these poems are communications with the poet's late husband, Peter Redgrove
. The book is the last of three which enact the work of mourning: presenting bereavement...
Textual Production
Penelope Shuttle
PS
published Sandgrain and Hourglass , her second poetry collection since the death of her husband, Peter Redgrove
.
Three of her poems appeared in Diana Scott
's anthology Bread and Roses, published on 25 November 1982: they were Gone is the Sleeper, Locale, and Maritimes. In 1984 she and...
Author summary
Penelope Shuttle
PS
is primarily a poet, still active in the twenty-first century, though she has also published five novels. Her work engages closely with the female body: its power, its capacities, and the fear and unease...
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.
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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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...
Timeline
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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.