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This poem has a very unusual shape; it makes your eyes fly over the net like a tennisball. Roger McGough is a well-known British performance poet, as well as a playwright, broadcaster and children's author. In a 2001 interview with Zoë King, McGough states: "The tennis poem started off as just a five line, straight poem, then I had the idea of setting it out on the page, then when I was reading it, years afterwards, I started looking from left to right, so the tennis poem didn't come as one idea."