Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle | |
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| Born | 12 May 1947 Staines, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | English |
| Notable awards | Cholmondeley Award (2007) |
| Spouse | Peter Redgrove (died 2003) |
| Children | 1 |
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.