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“... The twilight is like a fine rain forcing us home. Under the trees glow the chalky threads of snowdrops at which I stare. Who goes there, the sentry cries. But how can I describe the mastery of flowers grazing the earth, like translations done without dictionaries ...”

“... Whatever the women in these Weldon and Shuttle novels achieve, it is not through effort or desperation so much as by passive submission. Women’s minds and bodies are the scene of all the action, but apparently no more than the scene; and though uninhibited freedom in this area is a sign of emancipation in modern women’s writing, I don’t know that the effect and the message in these two books will get a welcome in radical circles ...”

“... her and the rain wetted her’), the princess lends support to the findings of Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle, who in The Wise Wound indicate the frequent occurrence of both these qualities at the time of the menarche. Another spindle, another pricked finger, in ‘Mother Holle’, send a girl jumping down a well to discover the secrets of ...”

“... she was 21, it turned out to be almost impossible to do this satisfyingly. With his second wife, Penelope Shuttle, he still felt some shame over his need for the Game, though she was much more sympathetic. A troubled, talented and vulnerable teenager, Redgrove had won a scholarship to Cambridge to study biochemistry, but had a breakdown before he got ...”

“... Figes, Giles Gordon, Wilson Harris, Rayner Heppenstall, even hasty, muddled Robert Nye, Ann Quin, Penelope Shuttle, Alan Sillitoe (for his last book only. Raw Material indeed), Stefan Themerson, and (coming) John Wheway (stand by): and if only Heathcote Williams would write a novel’. In 1968 Penguin published Writing in England Today, edited by Karl ...”

“... one thinks of the novel Jesusa, by Peter Redgrove’s close collaborator of recent years, Penelope Shuttle, in which the concept of a female Jesus is explored. But Redgrove’s quarrel with Christianity runs much deeper than our current concern with male and female stereotyping. When he asks in ‘Godheadgear’, ‘Is half God’s brain ...”

“... a visionary derangement of the imagination under the influence of hormonal swings, such as he and Penelope Shuttle proposed in The Wise Wound. But the story has longueurs, the social setting remains rather general. Redgrove is not as sharp a satirist as he is a ghost-story writer. He’s at his best when evoking the concrete, tactile and macabre: the ...”

“... Raine, James Fenton, Andrew Motion, Derek Mahon, Fleur Adcock, Carol Rumens, Medbh McGuckian, Penelope Shuttle and others. Geoffrey Hill, Dannie Abse, Denise Levertov, Peter Red-grove, U.A. Fanthorpe, Gillian Clarke, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Elaine Feinstein are all variously represented, opening out the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties as a time of ...”

“... ban’? A hauntingly beautiful cover illustration for The Wise Wound, the study of menstruation by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove (translated into German in 1980), shows the Grail chalice within a womb. In Syberberg’s film Amfortas’s wound is both internal and external, as in dream-logic: his tunic is bloodied at groin-level, but the wound is ...”

“... earlier anthology, or her famous ‘Blackberrying’, with the poems in the present collection by Penelope Shuttle or Medbh McGuckian. All three poets seem to be doing much the same thing and doing it well. Their interest in and skill with words in relation to objects in their daily living are like the meticulous recipes in Colour Supplements and the ...”