( CNN ) -- The Wimbledon tennis championships provide two weeks of pure sporting theatre permeated with tears , tantrums , comebacks , upsets , joy , despair , strawberries and cream . So , perhaps the only surprise attached to the appointment of an ace poet to cover the tournament is that it was n't served up sooner in its rich 133-year history . Matt Harvey has been chosen as top seed -- a baseline bard who will pen a poem for every day of the two-week grand slam , chronicling the sights and sounds of south west London into a series of soulful sonnets . A regular contributor to BBC radio and a self-confessed Wimbledon obsessive , Harvey is already salivating at the prospect of trawling the sprawling site in SW19 . He told CNN : `` It 's just fantastic to be given such access to the place and the people . I 've already spent time there before the lines have been painted and in the museum , and it has been fascinating . I even got to sit in the umpire 's chair on Centre Court and had to pinch myself . `` When it starts I imagine I 'll be wandering about in the background . I 'll have to respond to the things people will be talking about , like if a pigeon is shredded by Roger Federer 's racket -- not that I wish ill of any pigeons , or Federer 's racket for that matter . `` I will also have to touch upon the traditions like strawberries and cream and Cliff Richard , and also the new addition of the roof -- welcoming people to the Wimbledome . `` The attention I 've had since it was announced just makes me realize how much everybody loves it . I 'm not the icing on the cake for Wimbledon , but hopefully I can be one of the many hundreds of thousands on the icing that 's on the cake . '' Poetry has a permanent presence at Wimbledon , the immortal lines `` If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same , '' from Rudyard Kipling 's poem 'If ' adorning the players ' entrance to Centre Court . Harvey 's task is to follow in those feted footsteps and compose an original work for each one of the 14 days of Wimbledon . So where will he draw his inspiration from ? He explained : `` I 'll be getting there early and experiencing Wimbledon before people get in and the change when they do arrive -- and I 'll probably go and recite some poems to people in the queue too . `` Wimbledon has such a rich history to draw on too . I can write about the fact that in the olden days women had to wear corsets and the like , which meant their clothes weighed three times more than the men . `` Or about the 1905 champion , May Sutton , who caused a stir by rolling her sleeves up above the elbow and wearing a dress that showed her ankles . `` There are also a bunch of racket stringers who sit in a little hut at Wimbledon where the players take their rackets to be tuned to their specifications . `` Plus , the Queen is going to be there for the first time since the silver jubilee in 1977 , when Virginia Wade won the women 's title , so there is enough to write about without even mentioning the on-court action . '' Harvey 's poems will be available on the official Wimbledon and Poetry Trust Web sites , and he 'll be blogging throughout the tournament . He 'll also have his very own Twitter page , meaning punters can embrace their poetic side by Tweeting suggestions during the tournament . He explained : `` I do a bit in my live show where members of the audience write a line of poetry on a scrap of paper and they always fit together better than people think , so I 'll be inviting people to Tweet me some pithy lines and hopefully we can do the same thing . `` Twitter is limited to 140 characters but you may just be able to fit a couplet in there . '' • To follow Matt Harvey 's poems during the tournament visit the Wimbledon or Poetry Trust Web sites .
Matt Harvey has been appointed Wimbledon 's first official poet . He will write a poem every day of the two - week grand slam . The public can Tweet him pieces of poetry during the tournament . He will be reciting poems to those in the long queue for tickets .