Mike Baynham ⌯ 'other tongue, mother tongue' lead editor
Mike is British/Australian. Of Scots, Welsh, and Irish descent, he also has an Irish passport. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1989, returning to the UK in 2000. Having experienced both migration and return migration enriched his research focus on language and migration with personal experience. Now retired from the University of Leeds, he is engaged in a range of performance activities, translating poetry and writing his own poetry. He has been selected in 2024 to work with a young composer who will set one of his poems to music as part of the Leeds Lieder Festival. He was awarded second prize in the Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize 2023 for his translation of a poem by the Moroccan zejel poet Adil Latefi. Working with the Kurdish literary translator Jiyar Homer he has recently completed a translation of a selection of poems by the Kurdish poet Dilawar Karadaghi, published by Arc in bilingual format with the title My Country’s Hair Turned White.
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