Penelope Shuttle
Encyclopedia
Life
Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20." Her home is in Falmouth, CornwallFalmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....
since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove
Peter Redgrove
Peter William Redgrove was a prolific and widely respected British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays.-Life:...
, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe. They wrote a prose work together, The Wise Wound also published in America, and its sequel, Alchemy for Women.
Also she is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group (1972 -), and appeared at the 2008 StAnza Poetry festival.
Awards
- 1974 Eric Gregory Award
- 2007 Cholmondeley AwardCholmondeley AwardThe Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
- Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) being a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.