Penelope Shuttle
| Titles: | Redgrove's Wife, Sandgrain And Hourglass, Selected Poems 1980-1996 |
| Category: | Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction |
| Agent: | Alice Williams |
| Nicky Lund |
Penelope Shuttle is a well-known poet and novelist.
Her Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and the collection she wrote following her husband's death, Redgrove's Wife (Bloodaxe Books), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2006.
From 1968 to 1980 she published five highly praised novels. With her husband, the poet Peter Redgrove, she is co-author of The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman, first published in 1978 and now in its sixth edition. Its sequel, Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through dreams and The Female Cycle appeared in 1995.
Sandgrain and Hourglass, was published by Bloodaxe in October 2010, and was chosen as a Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society.
Unsent: New and Selected Poems will be published by Bloodaxe in October 2012.
She lives in Cornwall, where she founded the Falmouth Poetry Group with Peter Redgrove over thirty years ago.
