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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

💚 on my way down Whitehall on other business, caught a glimpse of Hannah Spencer MP standing in solidarity with @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social to protest the latest rise in the energy price cap. ✊ sorry I couldn’t stop for a chat - but more power to your arm Hannah! ✍️ support her EDM!

Hannah Spencer MP in a line of protestors on Whitehall

Line of fuel poverty protesters on Whitehall

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

😁 so look - we’re in a park. In Central Park, East Ham. And seeing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with the East London Shakespeare Festival. 🎭 it’s Shakespeare. In Central Park. It’s Shakespeare in the Park. 🤫 Sssh - let us have our fun!

Man and woman in a park wearing sun hats.

Open air stage in a park, with audience assembling on the ground in front of it.

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Newham Greens @newhamgreens.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Say hello to Arshan, Ibrahim, and Joe – our new leadership team here to lead our biggest ever Green council group in Newham. We'll all be working hard for residents and to hold Newham's Labour Mayor to account.

Announcing Newham Green's Leadership Team:
Arshan Baskaran (Leader), Ibrahim Alom and Joe Hudson-Small (Deputy Leaders)

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

😎 on Sundays we drink Vibrante Spritzes and go see some jazz… 🙌 absolutely electric performance from Kamasi Washington and company at @southbankcentre.bsky.social

Man and woman smiling and holding drinks in the audience for a concert

Illuminated stage at Southbank Centre, London

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🤩 so guess who won the Genesis Poetry Slam for June 2026!! 🙏 thank you Panos, Hannah, the judges and the audience (including the nice folks who took some of these pictures!) for organising a spectacular night of fun, as always. See you for next month’s sacrificial poem and the FINALS in December!

Smiling man outside the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, holding a medal for winning the June 2026 Genesis Poetry Slam

Gold medal inscribed with the words ‘Genesis Poetry Slam’ held in a hand

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

‘In seeking to grasp the problem of youth justice, a greater measure of boldness will serve the government, and the young people who stand to benefit from its reforms, far better.’ My latest article in Solicitors Journal. www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/yo...

solicitorsjournal.com

Youth justice reforms prioritise evidence over ideology

Government youth justice White Paper leans on early intervention, courts reform and evidence-led “what works” approach

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

😊 back of the pamphlet in fetching sunshine yellow! Glad to have a showing for this poem, and my thanks to the organisers of the South Downs Poetry Festival.

Man holding a pamphlet of Poems for TJ Binsted Prize 2026

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My wife and I used to treat the Denmark Arms as one of our locals. We celebrated our wedding party there (for those who couldn’t make it to Poland). It would be sad to lose the pub, but whatever it becomes next it shouldn’t be yet another casino. ✍️ Write to Newham Council next! c.org/Z22PsQnQVC

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Sign the Petition

No To Gambling Centre At The Denmark Arms

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🙏 may thanks to Flight of the Dragonfly for letting me be a part of this anthology with two whole entire #poems to my name!

Man holding a copy of the anthology ‘Destinations’ from Flight of the Dragonfly

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Speaking as someone who also burned themselves out last year, and had to take time away from work because of it, I feel this, and I have a lot of respect for the frankness with which Carla is dealing with it. 💚 love and solidarity - get well soon!

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

‘[I]n his eyes dimly gleaming the lyric poetry of an early grave…’ 😁 I will say that I had fun with this rollicking burlesque of a Western, even if I did wonder on finishing it whether it had some of the weight and punch it aspires to have. Acerbic and lyrical by turns, a trip worth the taking.

Man holding a copy of ‘The Heart in Winter’ by Kevin Barry

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

‘There’s a reason why, whenever I am called on to describe my legal career, I make note of the fact that my practice often involves dealing with vulnerable witnesses and defendants.’ 👇Book your places now for my MBL seminar on the 7th of October! www.mblseminars.com/courses-by-i...

solicitorsjournal.com

Everybody matters in the criminal justice system

Supporting vulnerable court users demands more than legal knowledge; it requires patience, adaptability and fundamentally humane advocacy

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

‘When you can do the things that I can do… When you can do all that you don’t die.’ 🎸 been over a decade since I saw Andrew Scott take the lead in this one, and if anything I’d say its ferocious edge has become more concentrated. Its sheer grotesquerie drives it a mile deep into your brain.

Man holding a copy of ‘birdland’ by Simon Stephens

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

‘[E]ven what arrives is leaving.’ There is a clear, scrupulous, intelligence at work in these poems, a willingness to think through sensuality. Sometimes it arrives at luminous moments… but I’m bound to say that the whole left me cold. Near-life? Not quite near enough for me, I fear.

Man holding a copy of ‘Near-Life Experience’ by Rowland Bagnall

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🤯 2 @greenparty.org.uk MAYORS IN LONDON - IN 1 DAY?!? 🍻 there is going to be celebrating tonight - CONGRATS to @liamshrivastava.bsky.social and @lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social 🌱 want to be part of a real movement for change? join.greenparty.org.uk

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🤩 just sat in a conference room at Kingston Crown Court yelling “ZOË GARBETT IS THE MAYOR OF HACKNEY!!” and drawing strange looks from colleagues and court users… but I can’t help it! 💚 HUGE congratulations to @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social #GetGreensElected

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🧠 time for a dip into non-fiction, this time with what we might call some ‘Neuro-Dhamma’ from a writer with experience with the same people who taught me to meditate, the Samatha Trust! 💡 I don’t pretend to know a great deal about the hard science of cognition - but it *did* help my meditation!

Man holding a copy of ‘Jhāna Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience’

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

😵‍💫 two weeks in the Aegean definitely left me slower than before - could feel the strings pulled very tight at Mickey’s tonight. 🥊 still - better in the ring than out of it.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🍫 treats on my mind for the final poem of this year’s #napowrimo

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On the home stretch with #napowrimo number 29.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Not quite sure what type of cheese it was that did for me last night, but here’s #napowrimo number 28.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Been reassessing my meditation practice and rediscovering some things… in that spirit here’s #napowrimo number 27.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And now #napowrimo number 26 bringing us up to speed with me being a little gauche in sharing what I think I need from a life of the spirit…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And now, here they are - fist, #napowrimo number 25 brought to you with some inspiration from Oluwaseun Olayiwola writing in the latest ‘Poetry Review’.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

😁 had such a good time revisiting Oxford yesterday that I plain forgot to write my poem for that day - blame this man! But fear not, we will make up the distance. ‘Till then here’s some charming pubs and Port Meadow in the sunshine…

Two smiling men in the Old Bookbinders pub, with pints

Horses grazing by a body of water in a meadow

Two smiling bearded men in the Lamb and Flag pub, with pints

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

‘[W]asn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in the years gone by.’ 😁 what with Nicola Coughlan and Siobhan McSweeney crossing my feed so often recently it seemed like a good time to revisit this play. And it is still a devilishly enjoyable piece of work - farcical, tragical, inimitable.

Man holding a copy of ‘Playboy of the Western World’ by J.M. Synge

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🥊 going out on a high - privileged to have a poem in the final issue of ‘The Spit Bucket’. 🙏 thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for letting me be a part of this one.

Man holding a copy of ‘The Spit Bucket’ Issue 8

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In anticipation of a very nice Turkish carpet, here’s #napowrimo number 24.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Missing my holiday already - here’s #napowrimo number 23.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

✉️ alright - time to get back to work! ✊ out for @newhamgreens.bsky.social working to #getgreenselected on the 7th of May, and taking up the inspiration for #napowrimo day 22 - building two temples with one stone, if you like! 👇give what you can below! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rob-callen...

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Hopefully not running out of steam too fast for #napowrimo number 21.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

‘“And all men’s dreams… will be changed. They will never be the same again.”’ Le Guin is always a writer of penetrating intelligence, but in this sci-fi masterpiece it is deployed both to enlighten and to horrify. On violence, colonialism and the price of resistance, it still speaks chillingly.

Man holding a copy of ‘The Word for World is Forest’ by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

☕️ I’m not saying the coffee is the thing I’ll miss the most. But it is the thing I will miss first. 👋 see you around, Rhodes.

Man in sunglasses drinking from a cup of Greek coffee

Man and woman in sunglasses and sun hats in front of the Aegean Sea.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‘never wanted terra firma - the / sensible, the understood. That isn’t living. The sea rocks / me awake, like sex…’ 🏊 as roiling and surprising as the seas which inspire it, @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social’s collection from @serenbooks.bsky.social has got plenty to divert and inspire.

Man holding a copy of ‘Battery Rocks’ by Katrina Naomi

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‘Sophon used to tell me in lessons that it is possible to change the past.’ 👏 fitting to be in Rhodes for this one - @nataliehaynes.bsky.social has written a brilliantly compelling interpretation of the Theban cycle, one of the best novels I’ve read this year. Contemporary, illuminating, haunting.

Man holding a copy of ‘The Children of Jocasta’ by Natalie Haynes, in front of a ruin of a Temple of Aphrodite

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‘Like most women, I / occasionally wish bits of myself into non-existence.’ @dixonkat.bsky.social gives found poetry a gin and a shot in the arm in this sharp pamphlet from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social - look forward to seeing more!

Man holding a copy of ‘eat the glitter’ by Kat Dixon

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

‘the world is ending and I must know / in every hour of the day I have memory’ It was on my second reading of Jake Wild Hall’s debut collection from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social that I realised it was a work of brilliance - and a nice springboard into #napowrimo number 20 - cheers for that! 👍

Man in sunglasses holding a copy of ‘Alanis Morissette’ by Jake Wild Hall

Dripping wet man stood by a swimming pool

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Still on paintings for #napowrimo number 19. The quote is from the ‘Squarings’ sequence by Seamus Heaney.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

For #napowrimo number 18 I went back to some notes I made over a painting in Gdańsk…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

For #napowrimo number 17 I did some *eclectic* reading last month, and I had a few thoughts…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Now #napowrimo has me in terse mood for number 16. A fragment of a larger work still in progress.

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Areeq Chowdhury @areeq.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Green Party's manifesto, published today, sets out our plan to build a Newham we can be proud of. Read it here newham.greenparty.org.uk/2026-manifes...

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Time for #napowrimo number 15, celebrating the halfway point with Chelsey Minnis and the Joker…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For #napowrimo number 14, a brief account of the lessons learned from trying Turkish coffee…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Of all things, it would now appear that #napowrimo is producing what might be a work with some kind of Buddhist practice at its heart. And that does seem to call for a right dedication…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

‘For a cloud hangs over the time when Roke first became the Isle of the Wise, and it may be that the wise men put it there.’ 😊 I do not think I will ever truly be done with Le Guin’s Earthsea. Certainly these short stories are jewels, quickening new life in this enthralling world.

Smiling ma holding a copy of ‘Tales from Earthsea’ by Ursula Le Guin

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So, there’s much to cross your fingers for - the new guy did start in Fidesz, even if he’s now running against its corruption. But Orbán was a vile, bigoted, revanchist despot, a model for the global far-right, and everyone is better for him leaving. 👋 bye-bye Viktor - see you never. 🇭🇺

Man in an Amnesty International ‘Love Is A Human Right’ t-shirt, waving goodbye.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Get you up early enough sometimes that the breakfast bar is (briefly) yours alone, and then you get to see this from your balcony. Have an early #napowrimo number 12.

Sunrise over the cliffs at Pamukkale, Turkey, in a blue sky filled with hot air balloons.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

For #napowrimo number 11 I just want you to know, I have been an *excellent* travelling companion…

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Time for #napowrimo number 10, out to my neurodivergent siblings…

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