Coming up in 2009
(Look at the foot of this page for a short history of Judith's Readings, Workshops and Shows)
NEXT EVENT
Lewes Artwave - 'And Other Fairy Tales'
Open House in Lewes Artwave Festival with Carolyn Trant. Featuring paintings, drawings, prints and a special display of Carloyn's Artbooks.
Location: 32, St Anne's Crescent, Lewes.
Times: 12 noon - 6pm on August 29th & 30th and September 5th, 6th, 12th & 13th.
Looking Back - past events
February 28th, 2009: taking part in Ruthin's first Writers' Fair in the beautiful Vale of Clwyd, at Wales' oldest timbered townhouse, Nantclwyd y Dre.
February 22nd, 2009: Reading new poetry at Torriano Reading Rooms, Camden, London.
January 2009: Taking part in Lewes STOP GAZA BLOODSHED. Norman Baker Lewes MP helps us deliver 500 signatures to David Miliband. See my blog for more. I march with many thousands in London and Brighton - and the world - to protest the government's do nothing policy on the war crimes committed by Israelis bombing of Gaza, including dropping white phosphorus on children. See the poem 'Child in Gaza' here], and more about Gaza on recent blogs.
November 2008: 'War and Writing' poetry and prose workshop at Fabrica Gallery for Thomas Hartschon's show on the horrors of war, 'The Incommensurable Banner', Brighton Photobiennial.
October 2008: Rocket FM, talking poetry and politics with Peter Flanagan.
September 2008: Poetry reading in the Needlewriters Series, Lewes.
August 2008: Lewes Art Wave, Open House art show: prints paintings, with Carolyn's Trant's fabulous art books.
June 2008: Reading for Ambit at the Bath House, Soho.
October 2007 : University of Sussex Meeting House, reading for The Frogmore
Papers anniversary.
October 2007: Lewes Library, reading for The Old Familiar Faces,
ed. Sybil Oldfield and Gwyneth Shaw.
Septembe 2007r: Komedia, Brighton, The Frogmore Papers anniversary celebration.
August-September 2007: The Paddock Printmakers, Lewes Art Wave, at Westgate Chapel.
June 2007 : The Cholmondeley Award Party, Society of Authors, Barts Great Hall, EC.
March 2007 : University of Sussex CCE poetry workshop: ‘Who’s talking?’.
A Short Short history of Judith's Readings, Workshops and Shows
Judith has read at festivals include Stratford, Hay, Cheltenham, Bristol, Lancaster, Brighton and Hull Literature Festivals, Brighton, Kings Lynn Poetry and Fiction Festivals, Lewes Live Literature, Cardiff, and West Ilkley.
London readings include at the Voice Box, the British Museum, the Poetry Cafe, Torriano, Coffee House Readings, the Ver Poets and others.
Sussex University, The South (Brighton), Lewes, York, Exeter and other UK venues, and in America and Europe.
Workshops from 1981, in London, Rumania, Key West, Slough, Sussex
Art Shows - Solo: 1987 &1989 at The Poetry Society Gallery.
1989 at Combined Harvest Gallery, W11.
Mixed: 1999 & 2000 at Lucky Street Gallery, Key West.
2001- 2007 with The Paddock Printmakers at Lewes Art Wave.
2007 CHOLMONDELEY AWARD
FOR POETIC ACHIEVEMENT
What's New
And Other Fairy Tales -
Open House in Lewes Artwave with Judith Kazantzis and Carolyn Trant.
Paintings, drawings, prints & special display of Carolyn's Artbooks. August & September, see events for further details.
Just After Midnight is named for the hour when my mother died. My latest poetry book, its last section remembers her and my extraordinary father. But first I range from the USA, both lyric and satire, to poems of Sussex, Italy, Palestine, love, satire and memory that grew through many a night into wave paths of image.