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John Bayliss
John Bayliss (b. 1919) was a British poet and significant literary editor of the World War II period; later in life a civil servant. He was born in Gloucestershire, and was an undergraduate at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. He served in the RAF.
He edited: The Fortune Anthology (1942) with Nicholas Moore, and Douglas Newton ; New Road (1943 and 1944) with Alex Comfort; A Romantic Miscellany (1946) with Derek Stanford . His collection The White Knight and other poems was published in 1944. He contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944)
He is sometimes associated with the New Apocalyptics, perhaps because of his poem Apocalypse and Resurrection; he is also called a surrealist, or New Romantic.
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