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...
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.
Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
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Textual Features
Penelope Shuttle
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...