Judith Kazantzis
Standard Name: Kazantzis, Judith
Birth Name: Judith Pakenham
JK
, a poet, journalist, historical compiler, short-story writer, visual artist, and blogger of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is known for the strong anti-war, anti-establishment stand she takes in her writings. She has also published translations and one novel.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | Novelist Anthony Powell
was AF
's uncle by marriage (his wife being born a Pakenham). Perhaps not surprisingly in this household full of literary creativity, three of AF's siblings—her sisters Rachel
and Judith
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Fell | On her trip to the USA in 1995 she met fellow-novelist Alison Lurie
. A couple of years later she went on one foreign trip with novelist A. L. Kennedy
and another with poet Judith Kazantzis |
Friends, Associates | Michèle Roberts | MR
's memoir, Paper Houses, features a huge roster of close friends warmly evoked, some of them long-term commitments and others belonging to some particular period of her life. They include many women who... |
Literary responses | Alison Fell | Judith Kazantzis
praised the poems in this collection as [f]ine, spare yet fluent, occasionally redblooded, exuberant with assured depictions of bleak blowy landscapes which are nevertheless beautiful. Fell, Alison. Kisses for Mayakovsky. Virago, 1984. cover |
Reception | Penelope Shuttle | The year after this PS
shared the £6,000 Cholmondeley Award with Judith Kazantzis
and Robert Nye
(getting £2,000 each). |
Textual Features | Michelene Wandor | This includes work by Nora Bartlett
, Sara Maitland
, Judith Kazantzis
, Wendy Mulford
, Libby Houston
, Cora Kaplan
, Michèle Roberts
, Angela Carter
, Noel Greig
, Rozsika Parker
, Alison Hennegan |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | In the same year, she published a collection of poems entitled Touch Papers, jointly with Michèle Roberts
and Judith Kazantzis
. All three, she said, were feminists who were also convinced of the importance... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | This poem was reprinted in Angel. Other poets to appear in this series, each on a different coloured sheet of paper, were Carol Ann Duffy
, Judi Benson
, Anne Born
, Carole Coates |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | After working on several other collective anthologies, MR
joined forces with Judith Kazantzis
and Michelene Wandor
in another poetry volume, Touch Papers. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. British Library Catalogue. |
Timeline
17 February 1979
China invaded Vietnam, giving as reasons the disputed status of border territory and Vietnamese incursions across its border.
25 November 1982
Diana Scott
issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.