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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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.
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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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Penelope Shuttle
PS
and Peter Redgrove
co-authored The Hermaphrodite Album (in which individual poems are not ascribed, though a sequence by Shuttle, Witchskin, was identified as hers when it won an award).
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Wright, Christopher. “Afloat & Ashore”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3724, p. 826.
826
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Penelope Shuttle
In 2007 PS
was working on a memoir of her time with Peter Redgrove
.
Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
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Penelope Shuttle
PS
and Peter Redgrove
jointly published The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman, a pioneering feminist study which uses PS
's own experience as well as scholarly sources.
Smith, Tony. “Every Woman’s Lot”. Times, No. 60322, p. 12.
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Dedications
Penelope Shuttle
She dedicated this volume to her husband
, daughter, mother
, and father
. Many of its contents had appeared in journals or anthologies, or had been broadcast on the BBC
. Two had featured...
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Penelope Shuttle
PS
and Peter Redgrove
issued another joint publication: Alchemy for Women: personal transformation through dreams and the female cycle, a kind of sequel to The Wise Wound.
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Literary responses
Penelope Shuttle
Hilary Davies
, reviewing this book for the TLSalong with Peter Redgrove
's The Mudlark Poems and Grand Buveur, found surprisingly little influence passing back and forth between these two strong, independent talents...
Dedications
Penelope Shuttle
PS
published, again with Oxford University Press
, another Oxford Poets volume entitled Taxing the Rain, dedicated to her husband
and daughter..
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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....
Material Conditions of Writing
Penelope Shuttle
PS
titled her first poetry collection since her husband
died Redgrove's Wife: it laments and celebrates his life and death.