Penelope Shuttle was born in Middlesex in 1947, and has lived in Cornwall since 1970. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1974, and her first full-length collection was The Orchard Upstairs (1980). This has been followed by seven further collections, three of which have been Poetry Book Society Recommendations, including Adventures with My Horse (1988). She is also the author of three novels and with Peter Redgrove has written two non-fiction books and two further novels. Her collection, Redgrove’s Wife (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), was shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prizes. Her publications since judging the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2009 include: Sandgrain and Hourglass (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Unsent: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), which drew on ten collections published over three decades plus the title-collection, Unsent. Her later collections from Bloodaxe are Will you walk a little faster? (2017) and Lyonesse (2021), longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022. Heath, a collaboration about Hounslow Heath with John Greening, was published by Nine Arches in 2016.
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