Sylvia Kantaris

With a slender output (five collections of poetry and two collaborative volumes), SK is a respected poet of the late twentieth century. Her choice of topics is bold: not only erotic love but also violent relationships, not only feminist analysis but also feminist self-criticism. Her poems fuse the personal and the political (on social and environmental topics) and the surreal with the closely and accurately observed. She has also published critical essays, reviews, and translations.
Colour photograph of Sylvia Kantaris in academic dress when she received an honorary D.Litt. from Exeter University. Her gown is red, with light blue and white in the hood, her cap black with a light blue tassel, her hair shoulder-length and blonde.

Milestones

9 January 1936

SK was born as Sylvia Mosley at Grindleford in Derbyshire, in the Peak District.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

1975

Under the name of Sylvia Kantarizis, SK published her first poetry collection, Time & Motion, at Sydney, Australia; it was issued by the Poetry Society of Australia
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Biography

Birth and Family

9 January 1936

SK was born as Sylvia Mosley at Grindleford in Derbyshire, in the Peak District.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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