Taner Baybars
Taner Baybars, 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, 1954To catch a Falling Man, 1963Susila in the Autumn Woods, 1974 Narcissus in a dry Pool, 1978Pregnant shadows, 1981
Prose
A Trap for the Burglar, 1965Plucked in a far-off land: Images in Self-Biography, 1970
Translation
Selected Poems by Nazim Hikmet. 1967The Moscow Symphony by Nazim Hikmet. 1970The Day Before Tomorrow by Nazim Hikmet. Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971Don't go back to Kyrenia by Mehmet Yashin. 2000.