13 Facts About Judith Kazantzis

Judith Elizabeth Kazantzis was a British poet and political and social activist.

Judith Kazantzis took a Modern History degree at Somerville College, Oxford.

Judith Kazantzis began writing textbooks on history, worked for the Chelsea Labour Party and reviewed for the Evening Standard.

Judith Kazantzis avoided the usage of the title "Lady" as the daughter of an earl.

Judith Kazantzis was a committed feminist, writing for the magazine Spare Rib, and was strongly influenced by Sylvia Plath's poetry.

Judith Kazantzis supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and joined the protestors at RAF Greenham Common air base in the 1980s.

Judith Kazantzis lived in London and later in East Sussex again, and spent three months a year in Key West where her second husband, Irving Weinman, taught.

Judith Kazantzis chaired the judges of the Longford Prize in support of prison reform.

Judith Kazantzis's poems have appeared in The London Magazine, Stand, Ambit, Agenda, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Bete Noire, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Ireland, Red Pepper, The Independent, New Statesman, Tribune, and Banipal.

Judith Kazantzis married lawyer Alexander John Kazantzis on 26 February 1963 and had two children.

Harry Mathews wrote an epithalamium for Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman.

Judith Kazantzis died on 18 September 2018, aged 78, from undisclosed causes.

Judith Kazantzis was survived by two children, two stepchildren, and six siblings.