Wendy Cope things". Three haiku from "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis", where they are presented as being written by the (fictional) Tulse Hill poet Jason Strugnell, were set by the composer Colin Matthews in 1990 as "Strugnell's Haiku". In 2008 Cope's poem "After The Lunch" was used as the lyric of the song "Waterloo Bridge" by jazz composer and musician Jools Holland and singer Louise Marshall. Some of her poems are written in the persona of a struggling male poet, Jason Strugnell, a slightly seedy figure from Tulse Hill. She displays her talent for parody with targets ranging from the sonnets of
Wendy McGrath Wendy McGrath Wendy McGrath is a poet and novelist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Wendy McGrath released the EP "BOX" (spring 2017) with the group Quarto & Sound—made up of Edmonton musicians Sascha Liebrand, Yana Loo, and writer McGrath. "BOX" is an adaptation of McGrath's eponymous "mirror poem"—a genre-blurring collaboration of poetry, jazz, spoken word, instrumental experimental music, and voice. McGrath's most recent publication is the poetry collection "A Revision of Forward" (NeWest Press 2015). The book is the culmination of a decade-long poetry/print collaboration with printmaker Walter Jule (who also contributed cover art for McGrath's first book "common place ecstasies"