Judith Kazantzis

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

She was a committed feminist, writing for the magazine Spare Rib,[1] and was strongly influenced by Sylvia Plath's poetry.

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

She 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.

[5] In August 2010, Kazantzis contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State, edited by Alan Morrison.