Penelope Shuttle

Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English poet and author. She has published fifteen volumes of poetry, plus two selected volumes, and six works of fiction. She has won the Eric Gregory Award and the Cholmondeley Award and has been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also known for The Wise Wound, a non-fictional work on menstruation, which she wrote with her late husband Peter Redgrove.

Life Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall

Shuttle is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group, founded in 1972. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, and a tutor for the Poetry School. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1974. Her first selected volume was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 1998. Sandgrain and Hourglass was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2010. Her collection Lyonesse was longlisted for the 2022 Laurel Prize, an award for environmental or nature poetry established by Simon Armitage.

The Wise Wound In 1978, Shuttle and her husband Peter Redgrove published a non-fiction book about menstruation, The Wise Wound.

The Victor Gollancz Ltd publishers file for The Wise Wound is held in University College Cork Library as the Shuttle-Redgrove Collection. This collection was acquired in May 2019 and consists of correspondences, contemporary reviews of The Wise Wound and letters from various individuals praising the work, including the poets Ted Hughes and D.M. Thomas.

Shuttle and Redgrove published a sequel, Alchemy for Women, in 1995.

Awards 1974 Eric Gregory Award Selected Poems (OUP, 1998) Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2007 Cholmondeley Award Sandgrain and Hourglass (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Works Poetry collections

Fiction

Prose books