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             Poet, Novelist, Translator, Painter
          and Printmaker 
             
 
      
 Just After
      Midnight  (Enitharmon Press,
      2004)  Of Love and Terror,
      first novel (Saqi
      Books, London, 2002) In Cyclops' Cave, a new
      translation from Homer' s Book 9, The Odyssey.  (The Greville
      Press, 2002) The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the
      Odyssey of Homer (Cargo Press, 1999) Swimming Through The Grand Hotel
      (Enitharmon Press, 1997)  Selected Poems 1977-1992
      (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995) More
      publication
      details here...   
 
      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: "the world made strange, surreal,
      subterranean fantasia ... an unusual voice in contemporary poetry in
      Britain." Of the  Selected Poems
      (1995),
      The Sunday Telegraph (Vernon Scannell): "Considerable variety
      of technical skill, mood and subject-matter." and Poetry Review
      (Helen Dunmore):  "assured, flexible and rich with
      experience".  Of  The Rabbit
      Magician Plate (1992), distinguished American Laureate poet
      Richard Wilbur wrote: "though there are many things one might praise
      about Judith Kazantzis' poems, what strikes me everywhere is the
      unexpectedness of her word choice; re-encountered, her words surprise
      again through their unusual accuracy and their nice governance of tone, not
      derailing the reader (as tawdry surprises do) but putting him precisely on
      the track". Of her poem cycle A Poem for
      Guatemala (1988) Harold Pinter said that it was "A rare
      event: A major political poem...beautiful wrought, concrete, and
      passionate."  More
      press comments here   
 
          
            
              | (2005)   |  |   |  
              | jan |  | 15 Ambit Magazine, The Bath House, Dean Street,
                London W1
  
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              | feb |  | 13 Torriano
                Readings, 99 Torriano Avenue NW1
  
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              | mar |  | 12Cafe Chimera
            Magazine, Cabaret Voltiare, Church Walk, Colchester
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              | sep |  | 22 Poetry Cafe, The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London
            WC2
 Chimera
              Magazine Art exhibition. 'High Street II: The Cliffe'Paddock
              Printmakers at Lewes Town Hall (see Lewes Artwave website)
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              | oct |  | 5Start academic year 2005-06 as Royal
        Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Sussex (www.rlf.org)
  
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              | nov |  | Art exhibition: Paddock Printmakers' show at the Thebes Gallery, off
        School Hill, High Street, Lewes (see Thebes Gallery website)
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