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.

External links

• Gur Genc, Last Meeting with Taner Baybars, Kunapipi, 33(1), 2011
• Heidi Trautmann, Taner Baybars – A Cypriot Turkish Poet - in memoriam