Peter Redgrove

Standard Name: Redgrove, Peter

Connections

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Textual Features Michelene Wandor
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.
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The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...
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...
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...
Textual Production 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).
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.
Wright, Christopher. “Afloat & Ashore”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3724, p. 826.
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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.