Judith kazantzis biography

Judith Elizabeth Kazantzis (née Pakenham; 14 August 1940 – 18 September 2018) was a British poet and political and social activist.
Judith Kazantzis, poet and novelist, was born 1940 and grew up in East Sussex.
KAZANTZIS, Judith 1940-PERSONAL: Born August 14, 1940, in Oxford, England; daughter of Francis (a writer and politician) and Elizabeth (a biographer;.

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Judith Kazantzis

British poet (1940–2018)

Judith Elizabeth Kazantzis (néePakenham; 14 August 1940 – 18 September 2018) was a British poet and political and social activist.

Life

Kazantzis was born in Oxford and grew up in East Sussex, the fourth child and second daughter of the eight children born to Lord and Lady Longford, and sister of novelist Rachel Billington and historians Dame Antonia Fraser and Thomas Pakenham. She attended St Leonards-Mayfield School, and then More House School in Kensington. She wrote her first poem aged seven. She took a Modern History degree at Somerville College, Oxford. She began writing textbooks on history, worked for the Chelsea Labour Party and reviewed for the Evening Standard. She avoided the usage of the title "Lady" as the daughter of an earl. During the 1970s she turned to poetry, fiction, painting and printmaking. She was a committed feminist, writing for the magazine Spare Rib,^[1] and was strongly influenced by Sylvia Plath's poetry.^[2]

In her own poetry she wrote about injustice and contribute

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In Cyclops' Cave, a new translation from Homer' s Book 9, The Odyssey. (The Greville Press, 2002)

Of Just After Midnight (2004), RV Bailey: "Adventurous, challenging, surrealist, magical, ... the work of an alert and committed writer".

Of The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer (1999), Ruth Fainlight writes "She gives further evidence of an ability to imagine herself into many roles... This tender, ironical portrait of a hero who has fascinated the European imagination for more than two millennia makes a fascinating development in the work of this justifiably ambitious poet." Marina Warner writes: "Judith Kazantzis' sequence of interwoven voices casts the many struggles with monsters, the seductions and loneliness of love, and the long wanderings of heroes into a vivid meditation for our turbulent times."

On Swimming Through The Grand Hotel (1997): The Times Literary Supplement: "Judith Kazantzis writes a poetry of sensuous immediacy couched in an agile, conversational style." Stand: "th

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Just After Midnight (Enitharmon Press, 2004, ISBN 1-904634028, Â£8.95) - available from the publisher at www.enitharmon.co.uk.

In Cyclops' Cave, a new translation from Homer' s Book 9, The Odyssey. (The Greville Press. Mellors Court. The Butts. Warwick. CV34 4ST - available from the author or publisher for Â£2.25, 2003;
ISBN 0 906887747).

Her seventh collection was the book length sequence The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer (Cargo Press, The Annex, Perhaven House, Cliff Road, Gorran Haven, PH26 6JN or www.cargo_press.co.uk, 1999, ISBN 1899980075) .In print, available from publisher - Â£9.50 inc pp. Email inquiries to Cargo Press here. Illus by Jacqueline Morreau with four full page original etchings.

A sensuous interweaving of the famous voices, Odysseus, Penelope, Kalypso and Circe, even the many headed monster Skylla, they slyly point up the weak links in Odysseus' account of his Great Wanderings. So the hero becomes human: callous, deeply divided in himself, yet courageous and in his fashion true.&