Keith Jebb
@keithjebb.bsky.social
Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
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John Greening reviews my new chapbook ‘Walking Away’
John Greening has recently reviewed my new chapbook of poems, Walking Away (Dare-Gale Press, 2025), a review which first appeared on The High Window website. Many thanks to David Cooke at THW and to the reviewer for his kind and perceptive…
John Greening has recently reviewed my new chapbook of poems, Walking Away (Dare-Gale Press, 2025), a review which first appeared on The High Window website. Many thanks to David Cooke at THW and to the reviewer for his kind and perceptive…
John Greening reviews my new chapbook ‘Walking Away’
John Greening has recently reviewed my new chapbook of poems, Walking Away (Dare-Gale Press, 2025), a review which first appeared on The High Window website. Many thanks to David Cooke at THW and to the reviewer for his kind and perceptive comments about a set of poems for which I feel (an obvious) affection. Mum and Dad would be bemused by it all I think, but pleased to be so remembered.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
John Greening reviews my new chapbook ‘Walking Away’
John Greening has recently reviewed my new chapbook of poems, Walking Away (Dare-Gale Press, 2025), a review which first appeared on The High Window website. Many thanks to David Cooke at THW and to the reviewer for his kind and perceptive…
John Greening has recently reviewed my new chapbook of poems, Walking Away (Dare-Gale Press, 2025), a review which first appeared on The High Window website. Many thanks to David Cooke at THW and to the reviewer for his kind and perceptive…
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The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
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Fiona Bruce: we talk about cost of living every week so I'm not sure we need a special programme.
Like they don't talk about immigration every week too and they made a special programme for that. If Reform UK Plc are on, they're never done banging on about immigration.
Like they don't talk about immigration every week too and they made a special programme for that. If Reform UK Plc are on, they're never done banging on about immigration.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Fiona Bruce: we talk about cost of living every week so I'm not sure we need a special programme.
Like they don't talk about immigration every week too and they made a special programme for that. If Reform UK Plc are on, they're never done banging on about immigration.
Like they don't talk about immigration every week too and they made a special programme for that. If Reform UK Plc are on, they're never done banging on about immigration.
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Well, this is exhibit number one in any lawsuit challenging a new travel ban on unconstitutional animus grounds.
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Well, this is exhibit number one in any lawsuit challenging a new travel ban on unconstitutional animus grounds.
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#AI in a nutshell. Perfect.
Stop Thinking Right Now!
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#AI in a nutshell. Perfect.
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SCOTUS is nothing more than an arm of the GOP. Expand the Court. Impose term limits.
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
SCOTUS is nothing more than an arm of the GOP. Expand the Court. Impose term limits.
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Pleased to Gef on the map (See my piece on him in robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2023/10/doub...) but a bit disheartened by '(No One)'!
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Pleased to Gef on the map (See my piece on him in robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2023/10/doub...) but a bit disheartened by '(No One)'!
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The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine (3rd Iteration)
YouTube video by Pamenar Press
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November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
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An immense thank you to Veer Books for the opportunity to take Sea Grammar on an outing! Exciting possibilities ahead 👀 🌊
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
An immense thank you to Veer Books for the opportunity to take Sea Grammar on an outing! Exciting possibilities ahead 👀 🌊
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Northumberland: disgust after young swan ‘shot’ with ball bearing on Northumberland river.
Northumberland: disgust after young swan ‘shot’ with ball bearing on Northumberland river
Police are investigating after a cygnet was believed to have been shot with a ball bearing projectile in a Northumberland park
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November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Northumberland: disgust after young swan ‘shot’ with ball bearing on Northumberland river.
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In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Our BBC
I've just signed the petition calling on the government to stop their attack on our BBC. We need an independent national broadcaster we can trust. Please sign and share today.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable
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‘I wrote a fan letter to David Thomson. In his reply, he urged me to develop interests other than film. That was Spielberg’s problem, Thomson said – he didn’t know anything else. But there seemed little danger of that in my case.’
Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson · Diary: What I Saw at the Movies
Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies the...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
‘I wrote a fan letter to David Thomson. In his reply, he urged me to develop interests other than film. That was Spielberg’s problem, Thomson said – he didn’t know anything else. But there seemed little danger of that in my case.’
Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Never forget what the Republican Party, Turning Point USA, and the Heritage Foundation have done to this country.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Never forget what the Republican Party, Turning Point USA, and the Heritage Foundation have done to this country.
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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I've been baking soul cakes for the living and for the dead today. Mine are simple, rustic-looking things but made with love. I wrote about their importance in Shropshire over on the blog -
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2023/10/hall...
#folklore #folkcustoms #Shropshire #Halloween
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#folklore #folkcustoms #Shropshire #Halloween
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I've been baking soul cakes for the living and for the dead today. Mine are simple, rustic-looking things but made with love. I wrote about their importance in Shropshire over on the blog -
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2023/10/hall...
#folklore #folkcustoms #Shropshire #Halloween
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2023/10/hall...
#folklore #folkcustoms #Shropshire #Halloween
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When you can be accused of a crime by this regimes Gestapo without proof, it’s shows to what extent they’ve weakened the rule of law
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
When you can be accused of a crime by this regimes Gestapo without proof, it’s shows to what extent they’ve weakened the rule of law
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What a sick world.
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What a sick world.
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Typo in part 1: existing, not costing
October 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Typo in part 1: existing, not costing
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Vile stuff. At my own university all new staff are employed via a subsidiary company to avoid the TPS pension (remember: pensions are pay) and we all fear the costing staff will be next. Management think staff are so desperate that they’ll accept anything.
Remember: university managements are so…
Remember: university managements are so…
Unprecedented, potentially unlawful retrograde proposals made by @solentuniversity.bsky.social
If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you.
We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals.
#HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you.
We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals.
#HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Solent University threatens P&O-style 'Fire & Rehire' with pension cuts
UCU today announced that it has entered a formal trade dispute with Southampton Solent University over plans to force all its staff onto inferior pension schemes, paving the way for a strike ballot if...
www.ucu.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Vile stuff. At my own university all new staff are employed via a subsidiary company to avoid the TPS pension (remember: pensions are pay) and we all fear the costing staff will be next. Management think staff are so desperate that they’ll accept anything.
Remember: university managements are so…
Remember: university managements are so…
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"A few more flags at the end of the street, most of the houses have none, but the message is clear, you don’t belong here, and what do I care, I’m leaving anyway, but think of it, living here, every time you look out of the window, or walk to the shop."
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October 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"A few more flags at the end of the street, most of the houses have none, but the message is clear, you don’t belong here, and what do I care, I’m leaving anyway, but think of it, living here, every time you look out of the window, or walk to the shop."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
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We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.
'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.
'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.
'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.
'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.
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I hope this happens, it should have months ago. My union was terrible (though my individual case worker colleagues were amazing) in organising against the cuts at my university. We need a national campaign against the devastation of the sector
'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I hope this happens, it should have months ago. My union was terrible (though my individual case worker colleagues were amazing) in organising against the cuts at my university. We need a national campaign against the devastation of the sector
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Today is the anniversary of the deaths of the 'Nine Men of Madeley'. Of the nine 'men', most were still boys who died in a mining disaster. I have rewritten my article to reflect new research about the tragedy.
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#history #localhistory
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#history #localhistory
The Nine Men Of Madeley
I want to take us back to St Michael’s churchyard in Madeley now, for there are still more stories to be told. Let us pause amongst the head...
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September 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Today is the anniversary of the deaths of the 'Nine Men of Madeley'. Of the nine 'men', most were still boys who died in a mining disaster. I have rewritten my article to reflect new research about the tragedy.
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-...
#history #localhistory
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-...
#history #localhistory