The Lowland League club hope to record their current season as well as their history through rhyme and prose.

And they have appointed former footballer and award-winning author Thomas Clarke as their poet in residence.

The 35-year-old from Hawick will pen from the sidelines in most of this season's matches.

And he also hopes to chart the glory days of the club from the 1970s.

Thomas told us: “It’s a brilliant opportunity.

“Selkirk are the oldest football club in the Borders, one of the oldest in the country, and I’m looking forward to delving into that fascinating history through my poems.” A former footballer himself with clubs ranging from Hamilton to Hawick Royal Albert, Thomas’s published works include “Intae the Snaw”, a collection of Chinese poetry rendered into the Scots tongue, and a Glaswegian retelling of Alice in Wonderland.

Thomas added: “I’m very excited to have been appointed here.

“There are a few clubs down south which have poets in residence, but Selkirk will be the only club north of the border to have one.

"It really demonstrates what a forward thinking club Selkirk are, on and off the pitch.

“The quality of football they aspire to at Selkirk is fantastic, and things like the recent win against Spartans are literally history in the making.

"I’m sure it’s going to be a great year to be involved with the club, and I’m delighted to be playing a part in recording it.” Thomas’s poems will be published in Selkirk match programmes as well as in an end-of-season anthology.

Selkirk chairman Ross Anderson admits he's a stranger to Keats and Yeats.

But he is looking forward to reading the stanzas of the club's latest signing.

Mr Anderson said: "Thomas was in touch with us a little while ago and we started talking about what we could do together.

"I believe we're the first Scottish club to have a poet in residence and I can't wait to read his work."