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, as...
Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Shuttle
Her father, Jack Shuttle
, had inadvertently supplied the excitement. He had been a soldier at nineteen, then a prisoner of war in China. After the second world war he worked as a civil...
Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Shuttle
The death of PS
's father
came six months after that of Peter Redgrove.
These poems mourn him as husband, lover, and intimately connected, collaborative writer. They also meditate on and dialogue with others whom Shuttle has lost: her father, Jack Shuttle
, who died six months after Redgrove...