{"title":"Penelope Shuttle","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenelope Shuttle's works offer a profound exploration of memory, history, and the natural world, weaving poetic insight with rich cultural reflection. Readers can immerse themselves in her evocative narratives that traverse personal and collective histories, often blending myth with lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer writing, straddling the realms of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, invites contemplation and a deepened understanding of the human condition through carefully crafted prose and lyrical storytelling. Titles such as \u003cstrong\u003eHistory of the Child\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/strong\u003e exemplify her nuanced approach to themes of identity and heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lyonesse-by-penelope-shuttle-9781780375540","title":"Lyonesse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe submerged land of \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e was once part of Cornwall, according to myth and the oral tradition, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change. There was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Scilly Isles and St Michael's Mount left as remnants above sea-level. \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e was also Thomas Hardy's name for Cornwall where Penelope Shuttle has lived all her adult life, always fascinated by the stories and symbolic presence of \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter seeing the Scilly Isles from a small plane at a low altitude flying over the Wolf Lighthouse and then visiting the recent Sunken Cities exhibition at the British Museum, imagination and memory played their part in joining the \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e dots together for her, prompting what she calls 'a spontaneous inundation of approaches to the theme, images, soundings of \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e'. As she writes in a preface to this book: 'The universality of loss, both of physical cities and of the human experience erased from the record, enhanced the resource of \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e in my writing. \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e is a place of paradox. It is real, had historical existence. It is also an imaginary region for exploring depths. It holds grief for many kinds of loss... The poems seek re-wilding of a city where human loss interconnects with mythic loss; myth is rooted in the real.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part of this book, \u003cem\u003eNew Lamps for Old\u003c\/em\u003e, is a collection of poems she needed to write in coming up for air from the watery depths of \u003cem\u003eLyonesse\u003c\/em\u003e, to find ways to begin again, to find meaning in life after bereavement. The 'old lamps' of a former life have been extinguished, leaving darkness. 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The second section, \u003cem\u003eBook of Lullabies\u003c\/em\u003e, steps closer to the theme of the child, with poems about memory, inwardness, climate change, sexuality in older age, and the natural world. The third part, \u003cem\u003eHistory of the Child\u003c\/em\u003e, is a journey back to Penelope Shuttle's own childhood, blending personal memories with imagined perspectives to explore psychological crises, emotional recovery, and the traumas of childhood. It introduces an 'alternative girl child self', inspired by Persian legends, by her late husband Peter Redgrove's dream of such a girl ('my death, and she is my soul'), and by a friend's fanciful wish. The culminating fourth section is a playful sequence about a little table, inspired by her mother and her childhood. 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