Wimbledon has been appointed Harvey 's first official poet . The Wimbledon tennis championships provide two weeks of pure sporting theatre permeated with tears , tantrums , comebacks , upsets , joy , despair , strawberries and cream . Harvey will write a poem every day of the 1977 grand slam . The public can Tweet him lines of poetry during the tournament . Wimbledon will be reciting poems to those in the long queue for tickets .
Wimbledon has been appointed Harvey 's first official poet . Harvey will write a poem every day of the 1977 grand slam . The public can Tweet him lines of poetry during the tournament . Wimbledon will be reciting poems to those in the long queue for tickets .