Peter Redgrove

Standard Name: Redgrove, Peter

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Literary responses Elizabeth Jennings
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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2705 (4 December 1953): 778
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Anthologization Kathleen Nott
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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Dedications Penelope Shuttle
PS published, again with Oxford University Press , another Oxford Poets volume entitled Taxing the Rain, dedicated to her husband and daughter..
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dedications Penelope Shuttle
It is dedicated to her husband and daughter, and to a recently-dead cousin named James Gunnell .
Shuttle, Penelope. A Leaf Out of His Book. Carcanet.
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Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
PS published Sandgrain and Hourglass , her second poetry collection since the death of her husband, Peter Redgrove .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Features Penelope Shuttle
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...
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...
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
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...
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.
Peter Redgrove 's manuscripts are held by Sheffield University .
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...

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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.