Mark Forsyth

Rhyme & Reason: A short history of English poetry is out now, and available to buy here:

[Mark Forsyth @Inkyfool]

@AngrySubEditor A man of taste and discrimination.

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There's a lovely interview with me by Riley Moore in The Brooklyn Rail. (posted in a fit of egomania)
https://t.co/RWmzUDysdF

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My latest book "Rhyme & Reason" is deal of the week on Audible. Hurry while stocks last!
https://t.co/PrEPmxZHof

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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).

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I've written a blogpost about royalty, T.S. Eliot and why you can't trust eye-witness accounts. https://t.co/EfjfLJXyHF

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@TheSimonEvans That's basically chapter 28 of Rhyme & Reason, summed up in a clip.

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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.

[Mark Forsyth @Inkyfool]

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)

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

@CptHastings1916 But did it actually happen? Mark Forsyth’s recent book ‘Rhyme and Reason’ suggests not…

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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 👇🏻

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I’m about to go and speak at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow at six pm. All about the poetry of poetry.

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I'm engaged!
So, naturally, I've written a blogpost about the history of engagements (military, professional etc), and the real rules for rings. https://t.co/hV0dWYfUWa

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@rcolvile

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@rcolvile This is my territory. I would insert a Breaking Bad clip, if only I knew how.

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I'll be talking at Hungerford Bookshop about my new book Rhyme and Reason TOMORROW (Wednesday) evening. More details here: https://t.co/6LEPpcXVcr

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The etymological connection between releasing, relaxing and relishing (and laxatives)
https://t.co/4Ybt8gZUuC

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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. https://t.co/Z17jgn5icY

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@Inkyfool Mark's new (8th!) book Rhyme & Reason: https://t.co/Whubqp31yu
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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: https://t.co/uM2VNmXFXd

Or search Sketchplanations wherever you listen