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Uli Jon Roth has been writing poetry since he was 16 years old.
The talent runs in the family - his father, Carl-Joseph Roth, who died
unexpectedly in 1972, was an author and journalist, who had written a
lot of poems in his youth. He had once even won the “Gorch Fock Poetry Prize”
in Germany before World War II, and his style of poetry left a lasting imprint on Uli’s
approach as well as on that of his brother Zeno.
“My father had an incredible feeling for the beauty and the deeper meaning of
language and instilled in us the respect for nuance and rhythm. He taught me
many things which have really helped me. I still have quite a few of his original
poems and hope to publish them one day.’
This section is going to contain many of U.J.R.’s poems and lyrics for all of his
albums in due time. For now we are showing here the complete poems Uli wrote in 2003
for “Vivaldi’s Four Seasons”. A fifth prose poem, “Metamorphosis”, will follow shortly.
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