Taner Baybars

Taner Baybars (1936 – 20 January 2010), who also wrote under the name Timothy Bayliss, was a Cyprus-born British poet, translator and painter.

Life Baybars contributed to literary magazines in Cyprus and Turkey before moving to England in the 1950s, and adopting English as his literary language. A collection of his manuscripts is held at the University of Reading.

Works

Poetry Mendelin Ucundakiler, 1954 To catch a Falling Man, 1963 Susila in the Autumn Woods, 1974 Narcissus in a dry Pool, 1978 Pregnant shadows, 1981

Prose A Trap for the Burglar, 1965 Plucked in a far-off land: Images in Self-Biography, 1970

Translation Selected Poems by Nazim Hikmet. 1967 The Moscow Symphony by Nazim Hikmet. 1970 The Day Before Tomorrow by Nazim Hikmet. Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971 Don't go back to Kyrenia by Mehmet Yashin. 2000.