John Bayliss (1919–2008) was a British poet and significant literary editor of the World War II period; later in life, he became a civil servant. He was born in Gloucestershire, and was an undergraduate at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He served in the RAF during the war. 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. John Bayliss died on 18 August 2008