Tim Kiely
@timkiely1.bsky.social
💚 Irish; barrister; poet; Green Party member. Chat on all of the above - views my own.
📚 Buy my books at timkielybooks.bigcartel.com
📚 Buy my books at timkielybooks.bigcartel.com
😊 I mean… I’m a D&D nerd, an Old English nerd, an adopted Brummie… this is no surprise to anyone, right?
What can I say? Well…
📖 It was the right time to return to it, having originally read it when I was a young teenager.
💚 for love of one’s friends and fellows and of the good earth - read it.
What can I say? Well…
📖 It was the right time to return to it, having originally read it when I was a young teenager.
💚 for love of one’s friends and fellows and of the good earth - read it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
😊 I mean… I’m a D&D nerd, an Old English nerd, an adopted Brummie… this is no surprise to anyone, right?
What can I say? Well…
📖 It was the right time to return to it, having originally read it when I was a young teenager.
💚 for love of one’s friends and fellows and of the good earth - read it.
What can I say? Well…
📖 It was the right time to return to it, having originally read it when I was a young teenager.
💚 for love of one’s friends and fellows and of the good earth - read it.
💚 been ripping through @mikaelaloach.bsky.social’s ‘It’s Not That Radical’ in the beauty of the North Yorkshire countryside. I feel energised to return to movement work like I haven’t in a long time.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
💚 been ripping through @mikaelaloach.bsky.social’s ‘It’s Not That Radical’ in the beauty of the North Yorkshire countryside. I feel energised to return to movement work like I haven’t in a long time.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
‘(Say, roughly, now, the truth). A man seeded me without consent. I bloomed.’
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘(Say, roughly, now, the truth). A man seeded me without consent. I bloomed.’
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
🖼️’These paintings are largely empty landscapes / where we can meet them, where we can exist…’
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🖼️’These paintings are largely empty landscapes / where we can meet them, where we can exist…’
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
‘[o]ur work, they sing in chorus / is what will have had to happen’
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
‘[o]ur work, they sing in chorus / is what will have had to happen’
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
😊 Tim isn’t here right now - he’s in Yorkshire drinking pints of Theakston’s Best and looking at the stars. But if you’d like to leave a message he’ll get back to you in… a week, say?
🍻
#holiday
🍻
#holiday
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
😊 Tim isn’t here right now - he’s in Yorkshire drinking pints of Theakston’s Best and looking at the stars. But if you’d like to leave a message he’ll get back to you in… a week, say?
🍻
#holiday
🍻
#holiday
🤔 back to Heaney for a quick holiday up North.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🤔 back to Heaney for a quick holiday up North.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
🥋 returning to where it all began for a one-day Shorinji Kempo seminar in Oxford. 9 years after first getting the t-shirt, and 16 years after starting my training, it feels GOOD to be one of those still keeping up the training.
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🥋 returning to where it all began for a one-day Shorinji Kempo seminar in Oxford. 9 years after first getting the t-shirt, and 16 years after starting my training, it feels GOOD to be one of those still keeping up the training.
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
😌 okay, so…
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
😌 okay, so…
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
🪡’Unpick me old, spin me a yarn worthy of queer…’
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🪡’Unpick me old, spin me a yarn worthy of queer…’
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
🤔 strange to take a rest day that includes being haunted from two directions at once… but then I think it fits. As the Eve of All Hallows goes into All Saints Day, so Ella Hickson’s ‘Oedipus’ goes into Jay Bernard’s still-haunting ‘Surge’.
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🤔 strange to take a rest day that includes being haunted from two directions at once… but then I think it fits. As the Eve of All Hallows goes into All Saints Day, so Ella Hickson’s ‘Oedipus’ goes into Jay Bernard’s still-haunting ‘Surge’.
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🎃 there are definitely worse ways of dealing with that old end-of-October pumpkin surplus!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🎃 there are definitely worse ways of dealing with that old end-of-October pumpkin surplus!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
✊now *this* one is a beauty - quite proud that one of my poems found its way into this handsome pamphlet with some very venerable company!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✊now *this* one is a beauty - quite proud that one of my poems found its way into this handsome pamphlet with some very venerable company!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🌕 so my wife has never seen ‘Wallace & Gromit’ before, and in the process of introducing her to this cherished national institution and pillar of my childhood, we just happen to have come to… well…
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🌕 so my wife has never seen ‘Wallace & Gromit’ before, and in the process of introducing her to this cherished national institution and pillar of my childhood, we just happen to have come to… well…
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎭 night at the Wyndham for a date went rather well!
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🎭 night at the Wyndham for a date went rather well!
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😳 stunning dereliction of duty from Labour, over 300 MPs were absent for a vote to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
😳 stunning dereliction of duty from Labour, over 300 MPs were absent for a vote to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
‘Arguments carry better when they shoot.’
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
‘Arguments carry better when they shoot.’
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
‘And what right has any man to say there is sufficiency of dreaming?’
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
‘And what right has any man to say there is sufficiency of dreaming?’
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
🪓’It isn’t difficult to keep alive friends… just don’t make trouble - or if you must… make the sort of trouble that’s expected.’
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🪓’It isn’t difficult to keep alive friends… just don’t make trouble - or if you must… make the sort of trouble that’s expected.’
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
🐍’When the krait strikes but does not loose / his venom: dry bite.’
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
October 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🐍’When the krait strikes but does not loose / his venom: dry bite.’
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
☀️ lovely day for a leaflet!
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
☀️ lovely day for a leaflet!
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
‘But if there are words, there is no death.’
🙏 very glad I picked this up at #gpconf from the @feministgreens.bsky.social stall - Victoria Mackenzie has written a very slim book in which there is a quiet, thrilling power, not unlike the work of the medieval mystics who inspire her.
🙏 very glad I picked this up at #gpconf from the @feministgreens.bsky.social stall - Victoria Mackenzie has written a very slim book in which there is a quiet, thrilling power, not unlike the work of the medieval mystics who inspire her.
October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
‘But if there are words, there is no death.’
🙏 very glad I picked this up at #gpconf from the @feministgreens.bsky.social stall - Victoria Mackenzie has written a very slim book in which there is a quiet, thrilling power, not unlike the work of the medieval mystics who inspire her.
🙏 very glad I picked this up at #gpconf from the @feministgreens.bsky.social stall - Victoria Mackenzie has written a very slim book in which there is a quiet, thrilling power, not unlike the work of the medieval mystics who inspire her.
🍺 #gpconf is over - time to celebrate!
💚 things have happened this year that knocked me off course - but being with @greenparty.org.uk members this weekend has brought me back. Let’s do this folks.
💚 things have happened this year that knocked me off course - but being with @greenparty.org.uk members this weekend has brought me back. Let’s do this folks.
October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🍺 #gpconf is over - time to celebrate!
💚 things have happened this year that knocked me off course - but being with @greenparty.org.uk members this weekend has brought me back. Let’s do this folks.
💚 things have happened this year that knocked me off course - but being with @greenparty.org.uk members this weekend has brought me back. Let’s do this folks.
🇵🇸 took some time today to head down to the beach at Bournemouth and be a part of the Red Line For Palestine event at @greenparty.org.uk conference.
✊let the call continue to go out to stop the genocide in Gaza, stop selling arms to Israel and sanction its government - again and again, until peace.
✊let the call continue to go out to stop the genocide in Gaza, stop selling arms to Israel and sanction its government - again and again, until peace.
October 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🇵🇸 took some time today to head down to the beach at Bournemouth and be a part of the Red Line For Palestine event at @greenparty.org.uk conference.
✊let the call continue to go out to stop the genocide in Gaza, stop selling arms to Israel and sanction its government - again and again, until peace.
✊let the call continue to go out to stop the genocide in Gaza, stop selling arms to Israel and sanction its government - again and again, until peace.