Typical.We announce Matt Harvey’s up and coming gig and Wimbledon jump on the band wagon. Yes, Radio 4’s Matt Harvey is coming to Bang Said The Gun and at the same time , Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships have appointed him poet in residence. Still, all they can offer is strawberries and cream, we can offer a raucous crowd and lager. Anyway, here is a sample of Matt on tennis.

GRANDEST OF SLAMS by Matt Harvey

Excuse me, I’m sorry. I speak as an Englishman

Forthe game of lawn tennis there’s no better symbol than

Wimbledon

The place where the game’s flame was sparked and then

kindled in

where so many spines have sat straight and then tingled in

Wimbledon

Where strawberries and cream have traditionally been

sampled in

Kid’s eyes have lit up and their cheeks have been dimpled in

Wimbledon

Where tough tennis cookies have cracked and then

crumpled in

top seeds have stumbled, tumbled, been humbled in

Wimbledon

Where home-grown heros’ hopes have swelled up and

then dwindled in

Wimbledon

The Grand Slams’ best of breed, it’s the whizz it’s the biz

The temple where physics expresses it’s fizz

There’s one word for tennis and that word is

Wimbledon.

Splendid stuff.