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Penelope Shuttle is a law unto herself. She writes brilliant, funny, clever, sometimes outrageous, poetry. This lovely new collection shows her slightly disturbed, both by the coming of middle-age, and the growing-up of a daughter. This book is intended for women's studies, and readers of Penelope Shuttle (and her husband and co-author of prose, Peter Redgrove), and other poetry lovers.
This is a selection from Penelope Shuttle's six books of poetry, beginning with "The Orchard Upstairs" in 1980. The selection is made by the author herself, and it shows her passionate awareness of the many ways - sacred and profane, comic, sensuous, and joyful - in which we sustain ourselves through poetry. The poems combine intelligence with uninhibited emotional power. This book is intended for 6th Form, A-level syllabus and Undergraduate students.
Penelope Shuttle explores the processes of love in all its manifestations. Here, she expresses love in time, and records the changes it effects in the self and the thing loved.
First published in 1988, Penelope Shuttle's Adventures with My Horse is now reissued with a new preface by the poet as part of the Poetry Book Society's Back in Print series. Described by Anne Stevenson as "One of the finest writers living in Britain today", Penelope Shuttle is a poet who draws inspiration and subject matter from the elemental forces of the human psyche and the wild geography of the natural world. These are frequently given objective focus in terms of human relationships or the canon of myth. She is particularly known for the substantial creative partnership she shared, until his death in 2003, with her husband, the poet Peter Redgrove. Perhaps the best known product of their creative union was the ground-breaking feminist work The Wise Wound. In addition to seven volumes of poetry, represented in her Selected Poems (1998), Shuttle has been a prolific and successful novelist.
This is Penelope Shuttle's first book of verse since Adventures with my Horse in 1988. The title poem, `Taxing the Rain', introduces a new, gently ironic, political note to a collection otherwise full of work more usually identifiable with this author: outspoken love poems; poems about children and animals in real life and dreams. Humour and passion are not always compatible, but here, Penelope Shuttle has achieved a unique mixture. This book is intended for readers of poetry, especially women readers. Sixth-formers, undergraduates.