Penelope shuttle biography

Penelope Shuttle was born in Staines in 1947 and has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She was married to the poet Peter Redgrove who died in 2003, after several years of ill-health. Redgrove was awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.

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Penelope has a grown-up daughter Zoe Redgrove, who is an environmentalist working in Bristol at The Centre for Sustainable Energy.
 
Since Shuttle’s first collection of poems, The Orchard Upstairs, appeared from Oxford University Press in 1981, she has published a further seven collections plus a Selected Poems.

Her eighth collection, Redgrove’s Wife (Bloodaxe Books), 2006, was short-listed for The Forward Prize and for The T S Eliot Award.
 
Her ninth collection, Sandgrain and Hourglass, is published in October 2010, (Bloodaxe Books).

Three of her collections have been Recommendations of the Poetry Book Society, and in 2008 the PBS re-published her 1988 collection, Adventures with My