The Lion from Rio by Penelope Shuttle
'Penelope Shuttle's poetic energy has never been so vibrantly expressed...a grand book, full of imaginative flight.' Alan Bold, The Scotsman 'She is certainly one of the finest writers living in Britain today.' Anne Stevenson-
The Brensham Trilogy
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The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth
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The Gamekeeper at Home
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Law, Liberty and Morality
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A London Child of the 1870's
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The Poems
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The Allegory of Love
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The Age of Illusion
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The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802
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The Western Island, or Great Blasket
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The Shepherd's Calendar
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Cottage Economy
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Rod and Line
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Lavengro
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Bohemia in London
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Heart of England
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Wales
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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A London Home in the 1890's
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The Life of the Fields
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Autobiographical Writings
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Speak for Yourself
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Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
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Still Glides the Stream
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Journal
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A Letters
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The Man Who Was Greenmantle
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Poetical Works
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Poems and Fables
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Moonraking
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The Recursive Universe
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A Memoir
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Language of Music
Penelope Shuttle has lived in Cornwall since 1970, is the widow of the poet Peter Redgrove. Her first collection of poems, The Orchard Upstairs (1981) was followed by six other books from Oxford University Press, The Child-Stealer (1983), The Lion from Rio (1986), Adventures with My Horse (1988), Taxing the Rain (1994), Building a City for Jamie (1996) and Selected Poems 1980-1996 (1998), and then A Leaf Out of His Book (1999) from Oxford Poets/Carcanet, and Redgrove's Wife (2006) and Sandgrain and Hourglass (2010) from Bloodaxe Books. Redgrove's Wife was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2006. Sandgrain and Hourglass is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her retrospective, Unsent: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), 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). Heath, a collaboration about Hounslow Heath with John Greening, was published by Nine Arches in 2016. First published as a novelist, her fiction includes All the Usual Hours of Sleeping (1969), Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree (1973) and Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden (1977). With Peter Redgrove, she is co-author of The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman (1978) and Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle (1995), as well as a collection of poems, The Hermaphrodite Album (1973), and two novels, The Terrors of Dr Treviles: A Romance (1974) and The Glass Cottage: A Nautical Romance (1976).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192819741 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192819747 |
| Title | The Lion from Rio |
| Author | Penelope Shuttle |
| Series | Oxford Paperbacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1986-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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