Mark Forsyth @Inkyfool
Rhyme & Reason: A short history of English poetry is out now, and available to buy here: https://t.co/EnG8KvqU5Z inkyfool.blogspot.com London Joined February 2010-
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There's a lovely interview with me by Riley Moore in The Brooklyn Rail. (posted in a fit of egomania) brooklynrail.org/2026/04/books/…
My latest book "Rhyme & Reason" is deal of the week on Audible. Hurry while stocks last! audible.co.uk/pd/Rhyme-and-R…
Apparently, Southwark Bridge is the only place in England that you can see two cathedrals from street level (Southwark is peeking out at the bottom of the Shard).
I've written a blogpost about royalty, T.S. Eliot and why you can't trust eye-witness accounts. blog.inkyfool.com/2025/12/prince…
@TheSimonEvans That's basically chapter 28 of Rhyme & Reason, summed up in a clip.
The OED doesn't record "pigs-in-blankets" as meaning "sausages wrapped in bacon" until 1999. First recorded in the Birmingham Evening Mail. But "pigs-in blankets" had meant "oysters wrapped in bacon" since 1880, and subsequently meant hot-dog and sausage roll.
Here’s a little factoid about the theatre in Shakespeare’s time from ‘Rhyme & Reason’. Theatre was very popular. (And Rhyme & Reason is available on Amazon)
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@CptHastings1916 But did it actually happen? Mark Forsyth’s recent book ‘Rhyme and Reason’ suggests not…
In Rhyme &Reason I said that "most people" could quote one line from each of the Big Six romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley. My fiancée made me change it to "some people". To settle the question, how many could you do?
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TOMORROW NIGHT! Join us in Stockport for an entertaining and enlightening evening with bestselling author Mark Forsyth as he gives us a light-hearted and very funny tour through English poetry in support of his new book RHYME & REASON Mon 17 Nov | 6.30 | £5.00 Tickets 👇🏻
I’m about to go and speak at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow at six pm. All about the poetry of poetry.
I'm engaged! So, naturally, I've written a blogpost about the history of engagements (military, professional etc), and the real rules for rings. blog.inkyfool.com/2025/11/i-am-e…
@rcolvile This is my territory. I would insert a Breaking Bad clip, if only I knew how.
I'll be talking at Hungerford Bookshop about my new book Rhyme and Reason TOMORROW (Wednesday) evening. More details here: hungerfordbookshop.co.uk/author-events-…
The etymological connection between releasing, relaxing and relishing (and laxatives) blog.inkyfool.com/2025/10/releas…
Lord Byron sold more copies of his poem The Corsair in a single afternoon (10,000) than Austen's Pride and Prejudice sold in it's first three decades (3,000). For more strange facts about poetry, buy my new book Rhyme and Reason. tinyurl.com/bdcsda9m
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@Inkyfool Mark's new (8th!) book Rhyme & Reason: geni.us/forsyth-rhyme-… (# affiliatelink)
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I absolutely loved listening back to yesterday’s podcast episode with author and etymologist Mark Forsyth - @Inkyfool True to form, Mark is both fascinating and at times hilarious. Have a listen: podcast.sketchplanations.com/ordering-adjec… Or search Sketchplanations wherever you listen
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