Literary papers of Sylvia Kantaris late 20th century

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Literary papers of Sylvia Kantaris late 20th century

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Kantaris, Sylvia

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Sylvia Kantaris was born Sylvia Mosely in Derbyshire in 1936. She was first published as a school girl in 1952. Kantaris studied French at Bristol University, and achieved a post-graduate Certificate in Education, during which time she was told she had no talent in poetry. Despite this, she wrote poetry whilst she worked as a teacher - first in Bristol and London, then in Australia, where she moved in 1962, with her husband, Emmanuel Kantarizis, a Greek born in Egypt, by whom she had two childre...