Dates

• Usage: 1947 -

Biography

Penelope Shuttle is a British poet who lives and writes in Cornwall. She has published 32 books as single author, including collections of poetry, prose, and other writings, along with five volumes in collaboration with Peter Redgrove, and one in collaboration with John Greening. She won the Greenwood Poetry Prize in 1972, the Eric Gregory Award in 1974, and the Cholmondeley Award in 2007, the same year in which she was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Shuttle was married to the poet Peter Redgrove from 1980 until his death in 2003, and together they wrote the seminal work, 'The Wise Wound' (1978), a contemplation on menstruation.