Judith Kazantzis has published seven other poetry collections and a Selected volume. Her first novel Zones of love and Terror is now forthcoming from Stratus. She reads her poetry regularly and publishes poetry and reviews, currently in Poetry Wales, Ambit Wasfari, and also 'parents (Enitharmon 2000) In 1998 she co-judged Stand's Poetry Competition. Her long poem 'The Mary Stanford Disaster' was included in the Arvon Prize Anthology 1998 A Ring Of Words.

       Swimming Through The Grand Hotel (Enitharmon 1997) includes love, fantasy, art, politics and landscape. The TLS: "sensuous immediacy couched in an agile, conversational style." Stand: "the world made strange, surreal, subterranean fantasia... an unusual voice in contemporary poetry."

        Selected poems 1977 - 1992 (Sinclair-Stevenson) includes poetry from Minefield (1997 Sidgwick and Jackson) The Wicked Queen (1980 ) Touch Papers (with Michele Roberts, Michelene Wandor (1982 Allison and Busby) Lets Pretend (1984 Virago) Flame Tree (1988 Methuen) A Poem For Guatemala (1988 The Greville Press) The Rabbit Magician PLate (1992 Sinclair-Stevenson). The Sunday Telegraph: "Considerable variety of technical skill, mood and subject matter. Nearly all these poems are informed by a sharp wit, intelligence and a courageous confrontation of the less endurable aspects of human life at the end of a troubled century." Judith Kazantzis is also an artist and printmaker, living in Sussex, with visits to Key West. USA.

'A poet at the height of her powers explores the ancient tale in this exciting interpretation.'

'Like being tied up, sir? you seem
to like getting tied up. Never mind, sir,
because we love it too.
Lick you, sir, any way you want?
Pour honey in those ears, clean out those
naughty ears? Ears can be very naughty, sir.
Everything you ever wanted, no waiting.
We'll tie you really tightly, like you couldn't breathe.
Open you all over, ears, mouth, open our mouths
for the lot of you. Lick you, sir? any way want.'

'The Odyssey reveals once again its inexhaustible depth of characters scenes and stories. Judith Kazantzis's sequence of interwoven voices casts the many struggles with monsters, the seductions and loneliness of love, and the long wanderings of heroes into a meditation for our turbulent times...'  Marina Warner '

'What strikes me everywhere is the unexpectedness of her word choices, that surprise again and again through their unusual accuracy and nice governance of tone...'  Richard Wilbur