Wimbledon’s New Poet-in-Residence
There’s always a first for everything and the Wimbledon 2010 Championship has also come up to the net with The All England Club’s announcement of the Championships’ first official poet. Poet Matt Harvey is officially poet-in-residence at Wimbledon . If you thought Wimbledon was already too highbrow, don’t worry, because Matt Harvey’s musings will entertain and bring The Wimbledon Championships into a completely different light. Harvey will be producing a poem a day from now until the opening day of the Wimbledon Championship, June 21st till closing, July 4th, 2010. This appointment was the result of Wimbledon’s venture to connect up with The Poetry Trust.
Matt Harvey, who is a regular guest on Radio 4′s Saturday Live with his own mini-series ‘Very funny, very satirical’, and in the past couple of years, has written the Desktop Poetry section in the Guardian. According to the Guardian, Harvey is a great stand-up comedic poet who got his start at the New Writers Festival at Plymouth Theatre Royal back in 1992, and how it was about time, after 15 years on the circuit, that he finally published his first ‘proper’ poetry book – ‘The Hole In The Sum OF My Parts’. Harvey will create poems that will, naturally, be about the upcoming tennis Championship and his verses will be published online at The Poetry Trust’s website. He first Wimbledon poem is titled ‘Grandest of Slams’. His verse will cover the gambit about anything from the grass, the roof and the rain. Check with the Wimbledon schedule or look for Harvey’s Tweets to catch his latest poem.
If you’re planning to attend the Championships, Harvey will be reciting his poems to the people waiting in the queues to enter the club. The new Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum , which was the original instigator for appointing an official Wimbledon poet, believes this will provide an interesting and novel way to bring to the millions of tennis-loving public, a unique interpretation of the Championships.
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