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Peter Redgrove
Standard Name: Redgrove, Peter
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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.. 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. prelims |
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. 47 |
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 Features | Anne Stevenson | 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. 126 |
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